: an electronic data retrieval system in which usually textual information is transmitted via telephone or cable-television lines and displayed on a television set or video display terminal
especially: such a system that is interactive compare teletext
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Viewtron experimented with delivering news and other information to homes via videotex terminals or computers before being shut down in 1986.—James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 16 Dec. 2022 July 1980 Minitel, a videotex online service offered by France Telecom, is tested with 55 residential and business telephone customers.—Gil Press, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022
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