#telidon

"Web" by Robert Flack, 1984. Screenshot: Canadian Artists and Telidon

3 slides from Douglas Porter’s “ The Style: Modern Life As A System of Subsystems“ { According to InterAccess, The Style was ”Originally an interactive videotex database, an electronic magazine containing ‘pages’ of video, graphic and text based content for Telidon users to view.” The Telidon was an experimental videotex/teletex platform developed by Canadian researchers in the late 70s and early 80s. InterAccess has been sharing work created for the Telidon by Canadian new media pioneers, check out their ig. 

"3-D Series" by Anat Matri, 1983. Screenshot: Canadian Artists and Telidon

A Norpak Telidon page creation terminal. Courtesy of Nina Beveridge

"In 1982, [...], a computer programmer and artist named Bill Perry brought a desk-sized computer to an artist-run video production centre called Trinity Square Video. [...] The computer, made by a company called Norpak, was used to create graphics for a Canadian image transmission protocol called Telidon. The protocol was like a government-funded and corporate-controlled precursor to the graphical web, at least conceptually—and nearly a full decade before Tim Berners-Lee described the world wide web."