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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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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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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...
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Today journalists Portals:
Virginia Journalism "Caren Bohan...
- 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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through more than 20
system operators including Compuserve, Dow
Jones and
Viewtron.
Additional databases (weather, arrival/departure information) were added...
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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...
- 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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publishing company Knight Ridder and AT&T
offered a
competing service called Viewtron. The
service offered news,
aviation schedules and
educative content, but...
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several other joint partnerships between 1983 and 1987.
These included:
Viewtron, a
joint venture of Knight-Ridder and AT&T Gateway, A
service in Southern...
