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>is that how the coloured buttons were usually arranged?

I think it depends on the system in use, but from my recollection it was a hierachical system - so from the home-page you may have links to News, Sport, Weather and TV Listings; from the News Page, the links may have been to National News, Regional News, etc.

Maybe when you got to an individual story one would be a link to 'next page' (or story) and the other 'previous page'?

One of the best uses I found was a low-fi daily quiz. Each page had a question and four answers, and you pushed the button for which you thought was correct. I think it also demonstrated that pages need not have a completely numeric id - I recall the quiz pages being something like '12;' - presumably to stop you cheating and jumping directly to an answer.

For more info on the quiz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboozle!




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