teletext

I remember reading a story that Teletext After Hours used to share their teletext pages with the kids pages and they were swapped after a certain time.

Most TVs had an option where the teletext could have a transparent background and be overlaid on the picture.

Only one morning the childrens pages weren't successfully swapped back over, and soon after the Teletext After Hours got cancelled...

This is really quite sad, Teletext was a fantastic example of what you could do with, in modern terms, basically no resources.

They still write their articles in that way, even though teletext is increasingly un-used.

The previous version of these displays was teletext (do you remember what that is?), with some analog signals sometimes directly overlayed onto them.

I wonder how hard it would be to adapt this to creating teletext art as well?

I'd love to do the same, but in many areas of the UK (like mine) both Ceefax and Teletext have already disappeared.

Channels 3 and 4 use Teletext p888 to broadcast them.

Time and date, teletext (which includes weather forecasts and news) I am aware of.

I have fond memories of hacking the quizzes on Teletext as a kid.

I can imagine Facebook would have thrived on AOL or MSN (or teletext).

Makes one wonder if we were better of with teletext, where one had to explicitly type the number of the "page" one wanted.

No ads would mean you will have to pay per page view like in MicrosoftNetwork/MSN95 (Bill Gates plan of the "information highway" that failed in 1995 thanks to the free internet), and Teletext based systems from the 1980s like BTX in Germany.

Teletext used to distribute source code on their computing pages 600+.

Teletext was pretty big in the 90s before broadband took off.