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World Service,30 Oct 1996,18 mins

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When touchscreens became an everyday object. Before the tablet, BT introduced Touchpoint, a networked computer system updating users on the latest news and weather. This is a programme from the BBC World Service Archive and was originally broadcast in 1996. Picture: Touchscreen, Credit: Getty Images

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