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Technical Help & Discussion => Software, Hardware & Website Recommendations => Topic started by: Clive on June 21, 2004, 18:51

Title: Ceefax teletext service
Post by: Clive on June 21, 2004, 18:51

The Ceefax teletext service is essentially the same now as when the BBC developed it in 1973, and is still used across Europe. Absurd, outmoded and wonderfully British, old bean.

http://teletext.mb21.co.uk/

and

http://teletext.mb21.co.uk/gallery/

Title: Re:Ceefax teletext service
Post by: Simon on June 21, 2004, 22:31

I still use Teletext quite often, for local news, mainly.  Believe it or not, the old Teletext is about 5 times faster than the new Digital Text services!

Title: Re:Ceefax teletext service
Post by: Clive on June 21, 2004, 23:29

I remember having a teletext adaptor for my BBC Micro and thinking I was the bees knees by having access to so much information on my computer.   ;D

Title: Re:Ceefax teletext service
Post by: Simon on June 21, 2004, 23:35

Does anyone remember Prestel?  You used to be able to access it from public libraries.  It was more advanced than Teletext, and I suppose you could say it was a predecessor of the Internet.

Title: Re:Ceefax teletext service
Post by: Clive on June 21, 2004, 23:39

I remember it but I never saw it in the flesh.

Title: Re:Ceefax teletext service
Post by: Simon on June 21, 2004, 23:48

This is going back probably 25 years.  I remember spending hours on it in my local library.