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Also known as interactive videotex

thumb|Videotex example screen showing its graphics capabilities, 1978. As in teletext, predefined, fixed-width graphics characters in multiple colors could be used to create an image. thumb|Minitel was perhaps the most successful videotex service worldwide, using this terminal, .

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  • Initial development and technologies
  • United Kingdom
  • France
  • Canada
  • Japan
  • Standards
  • Character set
  • Uptake
  • United Kingdom
  • Spain
  • Canada
  • United States
  • Australia
  • New Zealand
  • Netherlands
  • Ireland
  • Minitel
  • Alex
  • Minitel in Brazil
  • South Africa
  • Comparison to the Internet today
  • Definitions
  • See also
  • References
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thumb|Videotex example screen showing its graphics capabilities, 1978. As in teletext, predefined, fixed-width graphics characters in multiple colors could be used to create an image. thumb|Minitel was perhaps the most successful videotex service worldwide, using this terminal, .

Videotex (or interactive videotex) was one of the earliest implementations of an end-user information system. From the late 1970s to early 2010s, it was used to deliver information (usually pages of text) to a user in computer-like format, typically to be displayed on a television or a dumb terminal.

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