Switched off today. 🙁

Memories for me include “watching” football games and always ending up on page 7/15 when I wanted page 6/15.

Ha ha exactly or it would jump the page you had waited an eternity for

Ah,those days of simple analogue , groovy music and waiting, and waiting for pages to load 🙂

RIP the Cornish Internet.

Having Ceefax always gave additional bragging rights on playground ‘who has the best tv’ comparisons when I was a kid.

I remember it starting and trying to persuade my dad that he should get himself down to Rumbelows for an upgrade 🙂

Today all information is available instantly all over the Internet. In the 1970’s and 80’s you bought the newspaper the day after or you waited for the Ceefax pages to load. I remember coming home from school on Friday’s and going straight to the TV to see who had provisional pole for that weekends Grand Prix (This was when they had qualifying on a Friday and Saturday). I also remember when we got a new TV with Fasttext.

From memory wasn’t the ITV version called “Oracle”?

Or here if the direct link doesn’t work)

From memory wasn’t the ITV version called “Oracle”?

It was, until their – lease? – expired and they’d to reapply for it, and lost. It then became the imaginatively named Teletext, different company.

It was better than the digital version that replaced it. I suppose smart phones and tablets have made that redundant too

Anyone remember digitiser on c4 teletext? That was awesome!

The only thing I think I used it for we’re cheap holidays back in the late 80’s.. Well not me exactly but my exG/F…

Always thought it a bit odd TBH.

Quite sad actually and makes me feel old, reading that brought a tear to my eye…!

i can remember trying to scrabble down the details of a holiday bargain or reading up on the computer games page.

I can’t believe it’s lasted this long TBH! I’m impressed!
I only mentioned it a couple of weeks ago, didn’t know it was still going.
A blast from the past, to be sure 🙂

The only thing I think I used it for we’re cheap holidays back in the late 80’s.. Well not me exactly but my exG/F…

90 odd pages of holiday ‘bargains’ and no hold button 🙂

Today all information is available instantly all over the Internet. In the 1970’s and 80’s you bought the newspaper the day after or you waited for the Ceefax pages to load

Or watched the news.

Ceefax/Oracle were rubbish, I can’t understand why they’ve still been around for the last 10 years.

Few minutes of nostalgia……..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19996372

I used to play Bamboozle on the Ch4 version. Great days.

But there are still red button services… They are utter cr@p of course but they exist.

plus 1 Schmiken, Bamboozle was great

plus 2 Schmiken, Bamboozle was great

301 🙁

101 🙁

Another Bamboozle fan here 🙂

Woohoo!!!

Android
and
Apple

Used to love the snow reports for the Scottish ski resorts. This was all pre widespread internet. Many a random weekend off the back of a favourable ceefax ski report on a Friday night.

Bamboozle was awesome. The anticipation as the page loaded to see if your were right was the best bit.

Not sure if you could recreate that feeling in an app!

And 606/120. Who needs a digital program guide!

And 606/120. Who needs a digital program guide!

Ahhh now ‘n next, classic.

Especially when there were typos, and misreading stuff.

I always did want to see “porkinson”

Remember the pictures they tried to do with them there square pixels..

That Umberella and sun for the holidays, the odd looking square man on Ski’s..

Can’t remember any more tho’

Bamboozle was awesome. The anticipation as the page loaded to see if your were right was the best bit.

Until you realised that it would go to a different page with an “F” at the end of the number if you were wrong, so you could beat the system… 🙂

We used it loads for cinema listings. It took longer to find out when something was on than it did to watch it!

Ooh, happy memories, I spent nearly six years working for Teletext in the editorial department. 😀

Anyone remember digitiser on c4 teletext? That was awesome!

The Man with the Chin! Genuinely hilarious.

Bamboozle was good too. There was also a Knightmare-style adventure thing occasionally which was fun. All seems incredibly primitive now though!

You used to be able to get porn on ceefax but it was blocked!

….I’ll get my coat 😉

Digitiser. Mr Cheese and Mr Hairs. I always suspected their first names were Nob and Pubic.

Gosh.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digitiser

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboozle_%28quiz%29