The Ceefax signal is finally being switched off, after being launched some 38 years ago. I remember as a teenager surfing Ceefax and Teletext on the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 channels. I remember before that, a little kid watching Channel 4 early in a morning where bizarre artwork made out of blocks was shown (apparently it was called 4-Tel on View)
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| The 4-Tel man with the logo all crumpled up into a floating ball. Yeah. |
Back as a teenager, I remember playing Bamboozle on Channel 4.
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| The Bamboozle guy was kinda freaky. |
And getting the latest gaming news on Digitiser.
It's probably hard to explain to younger folk who probably didn't really ever use Teletext or Ceefax, but it was kind of the Internet of its day. You went to certain pages by typing in a three digit number, and I remember typing in random numbers to see what came up. The 700s were usually pretty interesting simply because they were pages that didn't have the normal stuff on eg news, weather, sport.
The text services was great for broadcasters who, at that time, hadn't gone into 24 hour television shows, and filled the night hours with news, weather and the like (not to mention the infamous Teletext adverts!)
For more teletext remembering go check out http://www.mb21.co.uk/ as well as the websites listed at the end of this post.
I have to mention that the latest episode of the Guild is out - go see it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpDCq2rifbs&feature=plcp
(Thanks for the above pics to:
www.gamesasylum.com
www.tvwhirl.co.uk
cultsoftware.blogspot.com)
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