viewdata
/ˈvjuːˌdeɪtə/
noun
- An old system that displayed text and simple graphics on a television screen using telephone lines, popular in the 1970s and 1980s.
- My grandparents used viewdata to check train timetables before the internet existed.
- The museum had an exhibit showing how viewdata worked in the 1980s.
- Viewdata allowed users to access news and weather information from their home televisions.