Date   : Fri, 05 Aug 2011 22:11:28 +0200
From   : rick@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: Morley teletext adapter anyone?

On 05/08/2011 20:34, F. Haroon wrote:

> Make sure you're recording some worthwhile TV then innit?

;-)


> How far useful would the last teletext pages dated at the
> time of recording it be into the future?

I think the value of this would take way too long to explain.


For an idea, however, look at Rob's viewdata site - now Wiki articles 
can describe viewdata right down to the wobbling of bits on the phone 
wires, but it doesn't give a "feel" of what sort of things the system 
offered.

These days, young'uns don't seem to understand why you might want to 
turn scripting off, they having been used to it so don't know otherwise. 
Can they really understand how Fidonet worked? Or BBSs? Viewdata is like 
a BBS with a different predentation. None of which is like web pages, 
chatrooms, Twitter, Facebook, or Cloudy-y things.

If somebody thought to keep a copy, it should be possible to put 
together a real example. If nobody keeps a copy, the best we could 
manage is to fake up something, but it won't be real. Rather like how 
medieval and Roman people are always portrayed in dull colours, mostly 
because all we have to work with are faded remnants. Turns out, they had 
colours...

Likewise, we don't know what dinosaurs looked like, we can only guess 
based upon the remains we have found, but they may well have been bright 
pink with yellow polka dots. But all we have are bones, no skin, so we 
guess based upon dinosaur-like things we know now - such as crocodiles.

See? So there is a reason to consider preserving this sort of thing...


Best wishes,

Rick.

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