Presented at Videotex International October, 1985 (Amsterdam) "Why put a geeky acronym like NAPLPS into the title of this talk?" Consider the venue. It was 1985. Graphics on a low-cost personal computer was still new - a cutting edge concept - but expensive, non-standard, and difficult to deliver over the networks of that time - most of them still operating at less than 9600 Baud ( i.e. really, really slow). And this talk was presented in Europe. There were already 3 major competing national browser standards in the marketplace: Prestel (Britain), Teletel (France) and Bildschirmtext (Germany). Though technically superior in many ways, the US/Canada NAPLPS standard was considered an unwelcome interloper. My agenda here was to demonstrate the advantages and look to the future. VIEW MORE ON JCVTCS.COM http://www.jcvtcs.com/-papers-tcs/power-of-naplps.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. Power of Graphics
Presented at Videotex International October,
1985 (Amsterdam)
It was 1985. Graphics on a low-cost personal
computer was still new - a cutting edge concept -
but expensive, non-standard, and difficult to deliver
over the networks of that time - most of them still
operating at less than 9600 Baud ( i.e.
really, really slow).
And this talk was presented in Europe. There were
already several major competing national
browser standards in the marketplace.Though
technically superior in many ways, the US/Canada
NAPLPS standard was considered an unwelcome
interloper.
My agenda here was to demystify, demonstrate the
advantages and look to the future.
http://www.jcvtcs.com/-papers-tcs/power-of-naplps.html
Note: Produced on a dot matrix printer. Classic.
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.