videotex

American  

[vid-ee-oh-teks] / ˈvɪd i oʊˌtɛks /

Also videotext,

noun

1. an electronic information transmission and retrieval technology enabling interactive communication, for such purposes as data acquisition and dissemination and electronic banking and shopping, between typically large and diverse computer databases and users of home or office display terminals connected to telephone or cable-television lines, or through use of broadcast television signals.

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Videotex British  

/ ˈvɪdɪəʊˌtɛks /

noun

1. an information system that displays information from a distant computer on a television screen See also Teletext Viewdata

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Etymology

Origin of videotex

First recorded in 1975–80; video + tex(t)

Example Sentences

The technology it used, videotex, was nothing new - Britain already had Ceefax, the U.S.

From Reuters • Jun. 29, 2012

Publishers spent hundreds of millions of dollars shoveling print content into videotex, audiotex, fax, CD-ROM technologies, and such proprietary online services as America Online, Prodigy, CompuServe, and Ziff Interchange.

From Slate • Dec. 22, 2009

And IBM has joined Sears and CBS in a venture called Trintex, a two-way videotex service for home computers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Two-way videotex technology allows viewers to peruse catalogues electronically and place their orders instantly.

From Time Magazine Archive

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From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.