A day of a lonely dog by the Japanese artist Maki Ueda, 2000. Shown in a teletext exhibition on the Dutch channel NPS, also featuring works by Edwin van der Heide, JODI, Joost Rekveld and Wolf.
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SCOOP was a teletext magazine for teenagers, available at ten high schools in USA, 1985. It was broadcasted on WGBH-TV in Boston using the NABTS/NAPLPS standards, which included the alpha-mosaic features of the French Antiope standard (see page 12).
“The kind of information presented (topical subjects, sports scores, around town information, etc.), the way it was presented (short, tightly edited segments), and the format (contemporary, graphic-heavy, easy to access) were appropriate to a teenage audience.”
More info in Formative Evaluation for Educational Technologies. Post updated in 2024.
Antiope (1976/1979) was the French competitor to the British teletext standard. Antiope used a higher data rate, dynamic page sizes, custom fonts, and generally more sophisticated graphics, although some of these features were introduced later in the 1980s.
According to the French, it was not as “crude and old fashioned” as British teletext. Nevertheless, the British won the the standardization war and proclaimed World System Teletext, while Antipoe was used for Teletel (better known as Minitel).
Some images from here.
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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.
Bill Geers teletext animations from 1989, straight outta the bible. Full playlist here. Made on the BBC Micro, which had a built-in teletext graphics mode.
More teletext animations.
International Teletext Art Festival (ITAF), shown on the Finnish YLE Teletext pages 525-545, 8 March – 8 April, 2012. Available online.
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TELETEXT evening at XL Art Space / Indian Summer
The opening event of the International Teletext Art Festival (ITAF) takes place on Thursday, March 8, at 6–9 pm at XL Art Space. Inspired by the 30st anniversary of Teletext in Finland FixCcooperative (www.fixc.fi) has produced an International Teletext ArtFestival in collaboration with YLE. Participating artists include: Ashley Anderson, Dave Needham, Dan Farrimond, Rich Oglesby, MaxCapacity, Bym, Raquel Meyers and Janne Suni. www.fixc.fi/itaf