Editing Telidon (section)

===Legacy===
Rather than the failure of Telidon as a promising technology or efforts made, Telidon's seemingly slow international acceptance and North America's sluggishness in pushing it to higher level of functionality was a topic of considerable discussion and disappointment in Canada, part of a similar and wider conversation on the entire concept of videotex that took place in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Many of the Telidon criticisms focused on the role of government in development of the systems, pushing a technology that no one really wanted.<ref name="Gillies">{{harvnb|Gillies|1990|p=}}</ref><ref>[[Udo Ruediger Keding]], [http://ir.lib.sfu.ca/bitstream/1892/7573/1/b16210219.pdf "A Criticism of the Dominant Model of Videotex as a Telecommunications Service as Exemplified by Prestel and Telidon"], Simon Fraser University, 1983</ref><ref name="Proulx">{{harvnb|Proulx|1991|p=}}</ref>

After most of the commercial efforts had ended, NAPLPS received a fresh breath of life as the basis of the [[Prodigy (online service)|Prodigy]] online service. In the time between efforts like Viewtron and the launch of Prodigy in 1988, [[personal computer]]s with the ability to view NAPLPS graphics with ease had become common, and modem speeds had increased to the point where the data was no longer overwhelming. After a promising start, Prodigy management invoked a series of blunders that seriously upset their customer base, and the arrival of the [[World Wide Web]] in the mid-1990s killed it off.<ref name="Banks Chapter 14">{{harvnb|Banks|2008| pp=Chapter 14}}</ref>

NABTS, the communications protocol for embedding data in the TV signal, also saw continued use after the Telidon project ended. It was widely used for [[closed captioning]] support, although not the only system available. It was also used for [[Microsoft]]'s [[MSN TV|WebTV for Windows]]<ref>[https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc768183.aspx "WebTV for Windows 98"], "MS Windows 98 Resource Kit", Chapter 13</ref> and [[Intel]]'s [[Intercast]]. Both used custom tuners, in the form of plug-in cards for PCs, that captured the information encoded into the VBI or even an entire TV channel.

For his work on Telidon, Herb Bown received the [[Order of Canada]]<ref>[http://archive.gg.ca/honours/search-recherche/honours-desc.asp?lang=e&TypeID=orc&id=190 "Order of Canada: Herbert Gideon Bown, O.C., M.Eng."]</ref> and the gold medal for engineering excellence from the [[Professional Engineers Ontario|Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario]]. The Touche Ross New Perspectives Award was awarded to Herb Bown and Doug O'Brien. Bown later formed IDON Corp to develop interactive teaching materials.<ref>[https://www.mun.ca/munalum/luminus4/1.html "Herbert Bown"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121007212400/http://www.mun.ca/munalum/luminus4/1.html |date=2012-10-07 }}, Memorial University</ref>