The Lost Art Of Canada’s Doomed Pre-Internet Web


The Lost Art Of Canada’s Doomed Pre-Internet Web
Telidon was a protocol invented in Canada in the late 1970s that let people dial in to central servers over the phone lines to view computer graphics on their TV sets. Artists in Toronto obtained one of the desk-sized computers used to create Telidon graphics and formed a thriving community around it before Telidon disappeared in the mid 80s.

July 21, 2015 at 11:11AM
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