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Usability Standards
November 11, 1984
This was the upshot of my work with the Applications Level User Interface Committee of the Videotex Industry Association. Our aim was to "make it work". Our primary challenges included:
technical platforms in flux integration with and between applications common needs, but competing standards unexplored arena of UI, definition of "usability" meta-information and tagging
http://www.jcvtcs.com/-papers-tcs/usability-committee.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.