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Telidon videotext decoder. Source: Tom Alföldi; Ingenium 1985.0380
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Telidon Videotext Decoder

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Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Sep 9, 2016
Before there was the internet, there was Telidon—a television-based information-sharing system that allowed users to browse computer databases. Telidon consisted of a terminal, a keyboard, and a television. Users plugged this decoder into their telephone or cable service and, using spare bandwidth, browsed services such as news, shopping, banking, community bulletins, and others. While Telidon featured superior graphics for its time, this Canadian government program failed to gain traction, in
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Contempra telephone

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Mar 16, 2016
For many years, Canadians depended on American designs for their telephones. Northern Electric Company, the manufacturing arm of Bell Canada, used designs licensed from Western Electric, which was associated with AT&T. When the agreement expired in 1966, young industrial designer John Tyson and his team at Northern Electric developed the Contempra phone: a telephone that innovated in both its shape and colour. Unlike the familiar curvilinear designs of the time, Tyson’s phone was angular, with
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Hand Telephone

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Apr 28, 2015
“Mr Watson, come here. I want to see you.” With these words to assistant Thomas Watson (in the next room) on March 10, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell made the first ever telephone call. Bell solved the problem of turning human speech into electrical impulses, and converting them back into audible speech. Brantford, Ontario: First Long Distance Tests While Bell made this first call in his Boston laboratory, the first tests over long distances were made in August 1876 over telegraph wires near his
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RIM 950 BlackBerry® Pager

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Apr 28, 2015
Thumb Typing Makes its Debut The RIM 950 BlackBerry® pager accelerated Internet communications when it was introduced in 1999. Featuring a unique keyboard layout, the handheld device functioned as a pager, email device, and personal organizer. Suddenly, people were furiously thumb-typing on their devices, which made a distinctive click-clack sound. Incorporating a wireless modem, the BlackBerry® pager was always “on,” which allowed users to receive messages on the go without having to dial into
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