Have you ever wanted to go back in time to the 1990s and see what it was like to live before the invention of the internet? Well, now you can because 38 years after the world’s first teletext service ...
Ceefax was the BBC’s text-based TV news service which taught a generation of journalists to write stories in chunks of four paragraphs which made sense whatever scrolling page of an article the reader ...
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Ceefax went live fifty years ago. BBC journalist and former Ceefax sports editor Ian Westbrook recalls the years when teletext ruled the airwaves. Imagine a world where you could not call up the ...
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 ...
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AS the 10th anniversary of its final day falls this weekend, fans of Ceefax are becoming nostalgic for simpler times when, in a pre-internet, pre-rolling news existence, the world’s first teletext ...
Ceefax (a play on “see facts”), the world’s first teletext service, went live on 23 September 1974, with 30 pages of information. During the testing phase, the editor, Colin McIntyre, was the only man ...
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