Celebrating the Viewdata Revolution.

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...

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Deconstructing the Business Social Network

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"

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Prestel and Micronet800

Remember Prestel, Micronet800, Teletext, SHADES, Starnet. ZX Spectrum, BBC Model B, Prism VTX5000, viewdata, videotext, Ceefax and Oracle ?

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The Good Old Days of Dial-Up Hacking

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.

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