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The "smart" television has a long history reaching back three decades and there can be no single person or company credited with an "invention" as such.

The first televisions to have data services added were European domestic televisions with a broadcast text display service called teletext. It made an appearance in the 1970s and remained in use until digital television replaced analog broadcasts.

In 1979, "Viewdata" was launched - an online data service that used televisions to access data services. It used the same display systems as teletext but was an interactive service and used a telephone line for data transfer.

Since those times, television and computing have been moving ever closer. In the 1990s Web-TV was introduced as a television based internet service. Lacking many of the features of PC based Internet clients, it had a mixed reception but nonetheless, it represented a fully interactive system although still used telephone lines (the only option for Internet access for most people at the time).

In more recent years, from around 2008 onward, televisions have had network features being added. The current smart televisions feature high speed Internet access with a range of apps, browsers and video on demand services. While significantly more advanced, the latest smart televisions all follow from the early data capable televisions f the 70s and 80s.

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