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• videotex
  videotex

  noun

  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.
• Videotex
  Videotex

  noun

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

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)