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2019-01-14

1990s, Ceefax, teletext, uk.

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In 1995 some countries started to broadcast a new British teletext protocol called level 2.5. Likely inspired by the French Antiope standard, it had more colours (4016 instead of 7) and redefinable characters. Few people ever saw it, because if your TV didn’t support it you would just see the classic level 1.

But now ZXGuesser has extracted level 2.5 teletext data from VHS-tapes and figured out how to display it. So the first image shows level 2.5 and the second shows level 1, both taken from this tweet.

2015-12-08

1980s, 1987, Ceefax, teletext, uk.

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teletextart:

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

Capture courtesy Jason Robertson.

Source: http://ift.tt/1HTxbhY

2014-11-30

1980, 1980s, Ceefax, teletext, uk.

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BBC’s CEEFAX service, as detailed by the index printed in the Radio Times, 2-8 February 1980. Via.

2014-11-14

1970s, 1977, advertising, Ceefax, teletext, uk.

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Ceefax press release dating from 1977 charts the first three years of the world’s first ever teletext service, via.

2014-07-19

1980s, 1982, Ceefax, oracle, prestel, print, teletext, uk, viewdata.

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In November 1981 in UK, Kenneth Baker, the Minister for Information Technology, proclaimed 1982 as “Information Technology Year, IT-82.” to support for the use of IT, like teletext and viewdata. Via

2013-08-22

Ceefax, print, teletext.

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