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.”
https://www.bbc.com/articles/cvg360rr91zo
#OTD #OnThisDay #history #technology #teletext #ceefax
Browsing teletext has been fun as a kid.
@[email protected] 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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletext#Development_in_other_countries
@[email protected] That’s awesome!
@[email protected] It is - quick and useful 😉
Oh nice.
“A searchable database of teletext pages recovered from domestic videotape”
#teletext #archive #tech #technology
@[email protected]
Apparently the site author is on the fediverse: @[email protected]
