European teletext is full of χχχ, as you know. Here are recent photos from the Spanish Cuatro Televisión’s dirty areas around page 600-800. It’s full of tarot, gambling and pr0n. For some reason this TV inserted a lot of hebrew characters as a nice bonus. More coming up!
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A teletext game for the BBC Micro called Flowers of Crystal (1984). Great intro!
(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
This guy was sucked into teletext when he was looking for hockey results in 1993. Now he is trying to communicate with his children, who are grown up by now. By Joonas Rinta-Kanto, as part of his fok_it comic.
This appeared on Finnish teletext yesterday. If you’re TV is not cool enough for YLE, you can watch the pages online here. Press the alasivu buttons to change subpages.
(via Aleksi Eeben)
RIP Colin McIntyre, founding editor of Ceefax.
When Ceefax was launched in 1974, he updated all 24 news pages on his own, feeding punch tape into machines.
When he retired in 1982, Ceefax had a 20-strong team. It went on to attract 22 million viewers a week and inspired teletext services around Europe.
— BBC News
Teletext graphics by Richard Gingras, 1980. This service was called Now and ran on KCET-TV. It was part of a collaboration between CBS, NBC and PBS to test the French Antiope standard for teletext. The project was supported by Télédiffusion de France.
Images from Gingras’ website, which is only partly archived on archive.org. There’s an interview with Gingras about his teletext work here.
Post updated 2024.
