For the last day of teletext in the UK, the weather report apparently used teletext graphics instead of the normal visuals. Good choice! via
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Electra teletext service (1980s-1993) was America’s answer to the British Ceefax or ORACLE systems, providing news headlines, weather, entertainment/lifestyle info, and other information. Electra used the World System Teletext (WST) protocol, the same protocol used by other teletext services in the rest of the European continent.
Screengrabs from ITV Nightscreen, 1998, courtesy TVAjb on YouTube. See here for the source vid, complete with music.
Digitiser, a British teletext magazine, 1993-2003. It used surreal language, strange humour, fake advertising and made fun of contributors. There is a video of this issue here. Super Page 58 has saved some of the texts. Wikipedia has more information. Pictures from gearforgold & luizalfonso.
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
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.
HANDS UP! was an animation series in teletext (!) that teaches sign language. Main animator was Ian Irving. Uploaded to Youtube by Richard Shaw-Wright.
> Watch the playlist of all 10 episodes
> All episodes on archive.org
Post updated in 2024.