A CEEFAX page from 1979. The Teletext Archaeologist - @grim_fandango The BBC has announced that 2020 will mark the end of the Red Button text service – the final incarnation of what was originally ...

“One page of the Times Newspaper, to be transmitted during shutdown.” That, so the story goes, was the remit given to BBC engineers in the late 1960s: find a way to transmit a printable page of text ...

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, ...

Ceefax - a play on the words "see facts" - was launched by the BBC on 1 November 1974 with a team of eight: four sub-editors (journalists) and four researchers The world's first teletext service is to ...

How to describe Teletext to the Twitter generation? Imagine a clunky internet with an insufferably slow dialup connection, only less interactive and with a strictly limited amount of content. Except ...

The BBC has announced that 2020 will mark the end of the Red Button text service – the final incarnation of what was originally known as CEEFAX and Oracle. Those old text-based TV services would seem ...

The world's first teletext service is to be celebrated at a special exhibition marking its 50th anniversary. Today people take interactive television services and news on demand for granted, but their ...