After 38 years the BBC is retiring Ceefax, ending the first era of digital content delivery to the home. Launched in 1974, Ceefax was the world’s first teletext service—a proto-Internet delivering ...

Kids these days are missing out. Oh yes, they have the world at their fingertips thanks to 'the internet' (pfft) but they just won't ever know the joy of sitting cross-legged in front of your tea, ...

Before the rise of 24-hour networks and readily accessible internet access, bored television viewers in the UK seeking entertainment at 3AM would have to make do with Ceefax. The service was ...

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Many European broadcasters currently use a Teletext-based format to produce subtitles (sometimes known as closed captions) for live TV programmes. Teletext has all of the limitations you would expect ...

Remember Teletext? The information retrieval service developed in the 1970s to broadcast pages of text and odd-looking geometric shapes that conveyed news, weather and TV schedules? Well, it has its ...

A very sad day it will be too. I have very fond memories of Ceefax when I was a child. I was born in 1988 and Ceefax had high use in my household in the 1990s. I will always remember sitting there in ...