Originally shared by Alan Cox"If videotex becomes a prominent medium, personal information will be circulating in a form that is easily accessible by organizations that are unlikely to have our best interests at heart. For example, a purchase made from a videotex catalog could be monitored by a number of different parties. What rights to privacy do we have when we correspond electronically?"
-- Darby Miller, Byte July 1983
The internet wasn't quite there and people were thinking in terms of videotex/videodata services but it's interesting to see the questions being asked even back then.
None of which helps me in my quest to find out what a UK viewdata terminal is supposed to reply to INQ but merely proves that searching and being distracted by old documents instead of packing stuff in boxes like I should be doing is a great way to waste time !
-- Darby Miller, Byte July 1983
The internet wasn't quite there and people were thinking in terms of videotex/videodata services but it's interesting to see the questions being asked even back then.
None of which helps me in my quest to find out what a UK viewdata terminal is supposed to reply to INQ but merely proves that searching and being distracted by old documents instead of packing stuff in boxes like I should be doing is a great way to waste time !