Missed this yesterday!
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Missed this yesterday!
"Ceefax was the world's first teletext service, going live on 23 September 1974. In a pre-internet world, the revolutionary system allowed people to check the latest BBC news and sport updates at the touch of a few buttons."
BBC Archive: Ceefax and the birth of interactive TV
The worldβs first teletext service went live on 23 September 1974
BBC (www.bbc.com)
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Stefan Bohacekreplied to Stefan Bohacek last edited by
Browsing teletext has been fun as a kid.
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@stefan We still have a teletext version from the national news agency: https://teletekst-data.nos.nl/webplus?p=100
They tried to cancel it, but too many people protested, see last paragraph
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@leonieke That's awesome!
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Kim Spence-Jones π¬π§π·replied to Stefan Bohacek last edited by
@stefan Happy memories. I designed the teletext receiver for the BBC microcomputer that allowed it to download software from broadcast TV.
https://www.retro-kit.co.uk/page.cfm/content/Acorn-Teletext-Adapter/index.html -
Stefan Bohacekreplied to Kim Spence-Jones π¬π§π· last edited by
@KimSJ That is very cool!
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Stefan Bohacekreplied to Stefan Bohacek last edited by
Oh nice.
"A searchable database of teletext pages recovered from domestic videotape"
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@stefan
Apparently the site author is on the fediverse: @grim_fandango -
The Teletext Archaeologistreplied to InsertUser last edited by
@InsertUser @stefan Yes, that's me
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Stefan Bohacekreplied to The Teletext Archaeologist last edited by
@grim_fandango @InsertUser Very cool website!