Celebrating the Viewdata Revolution.
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It's over 30 years since the GPO launched Prestel on the unsuspecting public. Over the fifteen or so years of it's existence, it became everything that the Internet is today, and spawned an entire industry of competing and complimentary services, plus more than a few hobby based systems, not to mention a multitude of companies dedicated...
Published on Saturday 20th of March 2010 11:57:28 PM
Prestel
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Published on Saturday 20th of March 2010 11:57:28 PM
Deconstructing the Business Social Network
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Bernard Lunn is a New York based software/media entrepreneur who started in online publishing before the Internet (with Prestel in 1980!). describes himself as"... the busy biz guy that’s too old for Facebook...My online social/business network happens to be WordPress + PageFlakes. PageFlakes is where I consume content and Wordpress... create it"
Published on Saturday 20th of March 2010 11:57:28 PM
Prestel and Micronet800
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Remember Prestel, Micronet800, Teletext, SHADES, Starnet. ZX Spectrum, BBC Model B, Prism VTX5000, viewdata, videotext, Ceefax and Oracle ?
Published on Saturday 20th of March 2010 11:57:28 PM
The Good Old Days of Dial-Up Hacking
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The last day of Infosec brought nostalgia for the old days of hacking. Robert Schifreen, the ex-hacker and author famous for breaking into Prince Phillips' Prestel account 20 odd years ago, recalled a more innocent age during his stint chairing a hackers panel.
Published on Saturday 20th of March 2010 11:57:28 PM
"Caesar said to the soothsayer, 'The ides of March are come'; who answered him calmly, 'Yes, they are come, but they are not past.'"
by Plutarch
This Day In History
Dutch East Indies Company: megacorporation was formed; it grew to control most of the European trade with Asia before expiring, bankrupt, after 200 years (1602)




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