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Viewtron was an
online service offered by Knight-Ridder and AT&T from 1983 to 1986.
Patterned after the
British Post Office's
Prestel system, it started...
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largest deployments of
videotex in the
United States:
Knight Ridder's
Viewtron service in Florida, and the Los
Angeles Times'
Gateway service in Southern...
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launched its
Viewtron system in 1983.
After investing six
years of
research and $50
million into the service,
Knight Ridder shut down
Viewtron in 1986 when...
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Today journalists "Caren
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TODAY Staff Page". USA Today. "Kristin...
- to Firestone. Also in 1983, it
began selling goods online through the
Viewtron videotex service. That same year,
fashion designer Roy Halston, signed...
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offer text-based
access for
those who
needed or
preferred it. In 1985
Viewtron,
which began as a
Videotex service requiring a
dedicated terminal, introduced...
- Ridder, on the company's ****ure in
electronic media after the
failure of
Viewtron four
years earlier.
Ingle proposed a
Mercury Center online service that...
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reposition itself as a two-way
information service akin to
Prestel or
Viewtron; the
service was
discontinued completely by the end of 1986. In 1982, Field...
- Knight-Ridder
Newspapers to form Viewdata, a
holding company that
operated the "
Viewtron" service. Test
marketed in
Florida in 1980, the
service expanded to the...
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through more than 20
system operators including Compuserve, Dow
Jones and
Viewtron.
Additional databases (weather, arrival/departure information) were added...
