Marketplace Background, Integration with Applications, Usability and Interface Standards, Headering, Context Management Technique, Content Integration Tools. Presented at the Videotex ’83 Conference VIEW MORE ON JCVTCS.COM http://www.jcvtcs.com/-papers-tcs/elemental-database.html BACKGROUND: What Was Videotex? http://www.jcvtcs.com/-experience/wayback-what-is-videotex.html Browsing History http://www.jcvtcs.com/-experience/wayback-browser-history.html Visual Delight http://www.jcvtcs.com/-experience/wayback-naplps-graphics.html TCS is Born http://www.jcvtcs.com/-experience/wayback-tcs-inc.html Before the Web http://www.jcvtcs.com/-experience/index-videotex.html This is the Portfolio of my work as a usability designer in the emerging interactive arena from 1981-87.

1. Elemental Database
Presented at the Videotex ’83 Conference (Before
We Called it the Web).
I spoke as a designer and implementer of some of
the earliest interactive online “websites”. These
were some of the challenges we faced then:
Marketplace Challenges
Integration with Applications
Usability and Interface Standards
Tagging,Headering
Context Management Technique and Tools
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Before We Called It the Web
The early 80's saw the "first wave" of investment in consumer-oriented interactive online digital services,
known at the time as "Videotex".
Videotex was Graphical, Consumer-oriented, and Easy-to-use.
Videotex was the Web
It was still very early days: The PC had barely been invented, the mouse was non-existant, standards
were haphazard, graphics were crude and communications bandwidth was laughable. Still, we got it to
happen.
Ultimately though, Videotex was an idea whose time hadn't quite come just yet. But it was a
visionary model of things to come.