Teletext

📅 Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd September 2024

🕰️ 10am – 5pm

🗺️ Centre for Computing History, Rene Ct, Coldham’s Rd, Cambridge CB1 3EW (United Kingdom)

In the aftermath of my Teletext experiments on Amiga – which I totally believed to be a world’s first breakthrough – blog reader Martin contacted me to tell me about his own Teletext experiments back in 1992, with a working solution in 1994, making his setup probably the real world’s first Teletext output directly from the Amiga!

In 1974, a brand new technology called teletext was being rolled out. It would, over the next few decades, have far-reaching implications, not only in the UK but worldwide. These are the stories of those involved in the production, restoration and art of the blocky medium that graced UK TV screens until 2012. You’ll hear from the pioneers, those who made teletext tick, and the newcomers keeping the medium alive 50 years after its inception. This is a social record of teletext, and these are the teletext people.

Originally posted on Mastodon here: https://mas.to/@grim_fandango/112778376239926349

A Teletext Knightmare adventure!

One of the teletext Knightmare games!

The teletext artist responsible for the image of Bamber Boozler plays through a Bamboozle quiz.

TEEFAX is a mysterious puzzle adventure game that has you solve a cold case after an old laptop containing the photos of a long unidentified victim is found in an abandoned house. There is also an app on the laptop - The Door. The police reckon it may be a cipher of some sort, but as they are unsuccessful in solving it, they turn to the public.

This originates from Teletext, where 10th March looked like MAR10.
Image source: https://www.superpage58.com/digitiser-vault-teletext-screenshot-image-archive-1993-01-01.htm

Welcome back to 1995. You turn your TV on, but there's an ad break! You press the red button to check out your favorite passtime. As you browse through, you see there's a lot missing. News articles not displaying, games out of order. Is anyone even keeping this updated anymore? Where did they go?

#sonic #retrogaming #digitiser With the help of their special guests Ashens, Larry Bundy Jr, Dan Does, Sooz Kempner and Beanus, Mr Biffo and Gannon take a lo...

In most of the western world teletext has disappeared, but in Sweden it is going strong and will soon celebrate its 45th anniversary

I made this years ago when Teletext announced they were closing. It amused me that that they might report on the world ending and still plan to run the service beyond that point, along with selling holidays nobody is able to go on.

Finnish teletext service from Yle.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/3986890

Just found this whilst browsing the Ceefax archives:

Aertel was formally launched in 1987 and will close on Thursday, 12 October.

The official lyric video for Sam Ryder - SPACE MANSam Ryder will represent the United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Turin with the song 'SPA...

An April Fools' joke made real!

Shades, the MUD on Micronet/Prestel is still running!

telnet://games.world.co.uk

we've been told that AttentionWhore has announced that Teletext has come to the Commodore Amiga (AGA).

It's happening today - should have posted this earlier!

Podcasts about Peoples relationships with technology, teletext, old Arcades and whatever else. Social History of technology, not always obvious.

Bernard Cribbins give us an introduction to Prestel.With thanks to @citifax for the recording, and @2019Casandro for the decoding.Played back here using R.T....