Topic: Ceefax teletext service

[Clive]

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/

[Simon]

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!

[Clive]

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.  

[Simon]

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.

[Clive]

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

[Simon]

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