RIP Ceefax

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17745100

First, not last, not always.

holy shit the thread title scared me. but then I saw it said Ceefax.

  On 4/19/2012 at 7:27 AM, Bewarethefriendlyfoil said:

holy shit the thread title scared me.

looks like a nice design for a sweater.

  On 4/19/2012 at 7:46 AM, Goiter Sanchez said:

  On 4/19/2012 at 7:27 AM, Bewarethefriendlyfoil said:

holy shit the thread title scared me.

  On 4/19/2012 at 5:53 AM, analogue wings said:

http://www.bbc.co.uk...gazine-17745100

haha. nice read.

we have (had?) a similar service called TeleTekst. much of my respect goes out to all the hermits still swearing by this system and their BBS'es that they browse on a 9600 baud connection.

  On 4/19/2012 at 7:49 AM, goDel said:

looks like a nice design for a sweater.

bam!

lol someone get andy on the blower.

this is quite sad, i remember looking through ceefax at 5am when i was a child, you got that same feeling as when you first had access to the internet, that knowledge was right at your finger tips and you were connected to something much larger than yourself, it will be missed.

I have some tapes of me and my mate drunkenly jamming along to some smooth late night 90s ceefax jazz somewhere

  On 4/19/2012 at 7:46 AM, Goiter Sanchez said:

  On 4/19/2012 at 7:27 AM, Bewarethefriendlyfoil said:

holy shit the thread title scared me.

  On 4/19/2012 at 7:46 AM, Goiter Sanchez said:

  On 4/19/2012 at 7:27 AM, Bewarethefriendlyfoil said:

holy shit the thread title scared me.

dear god this ^

Ah Teletext/Ceefax (and Oracle back in the day) with your Bamboozle, Mr Biffo's leftfield games reviews on Digitizer, Turner the worm, bizarre test pages (that as a kid I thought I'd hacked in to the service), pages that took ages to load and would inevitably then be displayed one page too far from the one you wanted, and when any hint of wind kicked up at our house all pages were reduced to this:

(I'm sure this was one of the reasons I got into glitch stuff)

Teletext - I salute you !

I used to think that whenever i changed the page it would change everyone elses, like it was just one screen beamed out to everyone, i thought that if i fucked around with it too much someone would come to my house and arrest me

yes i was a stupid child.

Even though Finland has completely moved to digital TV broadcasting we still have the teletext. I know people who still swear by it and there are even phone apps to use it. You can even browse it in the web here http://www.yle.fi/tekstitv/.

Edit: oh lord, they've created über-teksti-tv also: http://beta.yle.fi/uber_teksti-tv/

  On 4/19/2012 at 11:56 AM, mcbpete said:

pages that took ages to load and would inevitably then be displayed one page too far from the one you wanted

Yes, cycling through pages was essentially pot-luck.

fuck these threads

WATMM: the largest cause of early-age heart attacks.

  On 4/19/2012 at 10:20 AM, Gary C said:

I used to check out the gamesmaster pages on C4 for hints and cheats to my megadrive games.

RIP Ceefax!

Bamboozled was also ace.

RIP

many childhood memories :(

  On 4/19/2012 at 12:44 PM, mokz said:

Even though Finland has completely moved to digital TV broadcasting we still have the teletext. I know people who still swear by it and there are even phone apps to use it. You can even browse it in the web here http://www.yle.fi/tekstitv/.

 

Edit: oh lord, they've created über-teksti-tv also: http://beta.yle.fi/uber_teksti-tv/

Yeah, it's still my go to for sports results. I still remember when I was younger always checking the nights NHL results after I woke up.

Guess there's no need for that subforum after all... oh, wait

This makes me sad. Ceefax and Teletext were years ahead of their time. They had nothing like it in Canada. I would use these services a lot when I moved back to UK in '98, also when I was younger and go to visit relatives. They were my pre-internet internet.

  On 4/19/2012 at 2:43 PM, azatoth said:

  On 4/19/2012 at 12:44 PM, mokz said:

Even though Finland has completely moved to digital TV broadcasting we still have the teletext. I know people who still swear by it and there are even phone apps to use it. You can even browse it in the web here http://www.yle.fi/tekstitv/.

 

Edit: oh lord, they've created über-teksti-tv also: http://beta.yle.fi/uber_teksti-tv/

 

Yeah, it's still my go to for sports results. I still remember when I was younger always checking the nights NHL results after I woke up.

Oh hell yeah, NBA results!