Tag Archives: 1980s

Girotel, a videotex banking service for old white men, running on the Dutch Viditel network. Most images from here.

Fintel – the videotex service from Financial Times. They know the price of everything.

From some HAM-radio magazine, 1980, via Ray Manta.

Viditel, a Dutch videotex service from 1980s.

Half-tone style graphics from Argentina. Taken from the book Words & buildings: the art and practice of architectural graphics by Jock Kinneir, 1981.

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4 Tel the Dog, moving picture, Channel Four Oracle teletext, 26th February 1986. Hmm, that floor looks a bit uneven! Maybe Wiggly has been fooled by an optical illusion?

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Today, 30 years ago.

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Prince, Channel Four Oracle teletext, 26th February 1986. Before he was known as the Artist Formely Known As… presumably. This could all be another teletext abbreviation policy, I dunno.

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Today, 30 years ago.

teletextart:

No milk today, Channel Four Oracle teletext, 26th February 1986. It’s OK, I’ll have lager instead. :P

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Today, 30 years ago.

Music ads for Grace Jones and The Pogues on Oracle teletext 1986/87, via Teletext Art.

The two character sets of the Soviet Апогей БК-01 home computer. From this video.

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#pixelart Engineering, BBC2 Ceefax, 1987. Note the alpha black test… apparently it’s quite a rare thing.

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