4-Tel was Channel 4’s teletext service, and these graphics were likely made by Ian Irving.
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Datavision (1979), Swedish videotex service.
An introduction to ABC80, the Swedish answer to the TRS-80. It was built by the government-owned Luxor, and had a textmode that supported monochrome teletext, like you can see in the video. As a bonus, here is a video of a guy browsing the web with the ABC80.
A Twitter profile from Smart Argentina (@smartArg) features all the frames to a text art animation, a car commercial. I put this gif animation together to see what it looks like – the idea being that you press / hold the ‘j’ button on your keyboard to automatically jump to the next tweet in succession.
You can try it out for yourself here
PS – I tried to get this to upload as a photo post (the image easily fits the limits, yet wouldn’t upload – no idea why …)
Ascii advertising in London, 2007. From here.
An eerie ad for Prestel, which was a videotex service in the UK launched in 1979. A bit like interactive teletext.
Teletext Babez by drx (Dragan Espenschied) was broadcasted for the first time on October 6th 2001 on P.A.R.K. 4DTV Amsterdam. More babez here.
Post updated in 2024.