Sleep well my beautiful princess

ANXIOUS

Its the end if an era tonight they are switching off bbc teletext. I have great memories and scouring the football results on a Saturday to see if my accumulators came in. Or getting the synopsis for films. Anyone have other memories?

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20032882

Talib Fiasco

Nighty night xxx

northernpower

Teletext holidays - Fuppin brutal waiting for 39 pages to do a once around to get back to the one you saw earlier, and they were dúng

WoollyRedHat

****! The one time I want to turn on teletext and I can't find the bleeding remote!!!

DenMan

I used to check the football scores, tv listings and Star Trek news (They had a page for it!). Was a great pal over the years. Thanks Ceefax!

biko

I never used it.

madma

end of an era is right!

used it all the time growing up as a kid getting all the latest scores, latest football news and other stuff.. was hooked on it for years

but of course in recent years with the launch of the smartphones and other stuff ive had no need for that teletext anymore..

rip ceefax thanks for your help over the years!

ANXIOUS

biko wrote: »

I never used it.

Not even for cinema schedules? Lotto results?

Where To

I remember when the ability to 'hold' a teletext page came out. I thought technology had reached it's pinnacle there and then.

3ndahalfof6

it will return, (named ceeback) save your tears.

9959

I was always an 'aertal' man myself, woudn't watch that foreign muck.
You must be one of those self-loathing Irishmen.

efb

302, 606, 440

smash

ANXIOUS wrote: »

Not even for cinema schedules? Lotto results?

Are you not thinking or rte teletext? Cos uk lotto are cinema listings are useless in ROI

HeyThereDeliah

ANXIOUS wrote: »

Its the end if an era tonight they are switching off bbc teletext. I have great memories and scouring the football results on a Saturday to see if my accumulators came in. Or getting the synopsis for films. Anyone have other memories?

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20032882

Is it really that popular in Ireland? Never used it tbh.

ANXIOUS

Where To wrote: »

I remember when the ability to 'hold' a teletext page came out. I thought technology had reached it's pinnacle there and then.

I second that or you could scroll through them.

ANXIOUS

Where To wrote: »

I remember when the ability to 'hold' a teletext page came out. I thought technology had reached it's pinnacle there and then.

smash wrote: »

Are you not thinking or rte teletext? Cos uk lotto are cinema listings are useless in ROI

I spent some time near the border. It must only be a matter of time before aertel is done away with.

Immaculate Pasta

RIP Ceefax.

The world already seems a much darker place without you

Capt'n Midnight

Aertel is going too

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Remember Bamboozle on Channel 4 ?

ANXIOUS

Immaculate Pasta wrote: »

RIP Ceefax.

The world already seems a much darker place without you

To paraphrase someone famous. The pain we feel now is the price we must pay for having known her love.

ANXIOUS

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Aertel is going too

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Remember Bamboozle on Channel 4 ?

Was that the daily quiz? Didn't they have a problem page as well?

extra gravy

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Aertel is going too

Airport Arrivals
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Remember Bamboozle on Channel 4 ?

Was this a quiz of some sorts? Have a vague recollection of it.

Quirk_Douglas

I never got over the shutting down of the Channel 4 teletext page in December 2009. They had a music page called 'PS' which had interviews with different musicians, album and singles reviews, and a letters page where people would write in. That was my source of music-related information in my days before the internet, when the internet still seemed like a far away, otherworldly, magical place. I was quite wrong as you well know.

As for sports, the Sky channels have a text page where you can look up the latest results. Not quite as magical as teletext, as the teletext pages often felt like a well-kept secret, especially in the later years, but technology has raced forward and we must struggle to catch up.

keith16

efb wrote: »

302, 606, 440

302 was the footy...what were the other two?

I vaguely recall 606 being the tv guide?

Also, Bamboozle on C4 fascinated me. Page 150 IIRC.

Thatsfootball

The great 338 for the latest football gossip column!!
316 had a great thing for 12.45 games a few years ago when it'd give the teams and details!!

Also when the signal was going poor and it w&s r"a*ly ha(d to kn!w w£at was act?ally happ<nin%

:pac:

The King of Moo

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Aertel is going too

Airport Arrivals
Weather


Remember Bamboozle on Channel 4 ?

I loved Bamboozle!

My favourite site on Channel 4 teletext was Digitiser, the computer games site, curated by the wonderful Mr. Biffo, and his friends like The Man's Daddy/Man Daddy, Mr.T (and his bins), the rapping shoes, and the two snakes.

Here's a tribute site, in case I'm not the only one enamoured with this inanity.

GhostInTheRuins

Teletext was like the internet for poor people.

The reception was crap at our house so we only had the irish channels and aertel, so when I was a kid I used to love going down to my nanny's because she had the english channels so I was straight onto ceefax and the channel 4 teletext. Ooh how sad

You've been bamboozled!

Blazer

DenMan wrote: »

and Star Trek news (They had a page for it!). Was a great pal over the years. Thanks Ceefax!

christ I had forgotten about that...so long ago now

Aenaes

Byby bbz, luvz uz 4 evaz! xxxxxxx

Mint Sauce

When the coloured buttons first came out and you could play Bambozle. Loved that.

Where To wrote: »

I remember when the ability to 'hold' a teletext page came out. I thought technology had reached it's pinnacle there and then.

Or when you could move forward or back a page, without waiting an eternity for it to refresh or end up skipping a page.

Where To

GhostInTheRuins wrote: »

Teletext was like the internet for poor people.

First Ceefax enabled sets cost Stg£700 in 1974. Not exactly cheap.;)
http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2012-10-23/farewell-to-ceefax---it-was-nice-working-with-you

Teyla Emmagan

I have a friend who claims that teletext was faster than the internet (and had more on it) till about 2005. He had all the page numbers memorised, was a wonder to behold with the remote control.

itac

Used to live above a restaurant I managed in the UK, worked an 11am til close shift on a Saturday & would always take my break between 4:30 & 5 and check the footy scores on ceefax....ohh the frustration when something like below happened!!

Thatsfootball wrote: »

Also when the signal was going poor and it w&s r"a*ly ha(d to kn!w w£at was act?ally happ<nin%

:pac:

Son Of A Vidic

northernpower wrote: »

Teletext holidays - Fuppin brutal waiting for 39 pages to do a once around to get back to the one you saw earlier

And the will to live was often lost, while you waited for that page to come around again.

MrJoeSoap

Memories of hanging out the side of a mobile home in Waterford with an aerial (or coat hanger on occasion), with someone inside looking at this and shouting at you... "HIGHER!"

ANXIOUS

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WindSock

So long, old people's internet

C U l8r Fax.

Sofaspud

I only started using Ceefax after they moved the Aertel letters page to RTE1 and it became crap and they stopped updating it.

That and 606, which was infinitely better than Aertel 180 because you could still watch TV. Only problem was the lack of Irish channel listings!

BrianD3

I haven't used Ceefax since it disappeared from NTL a couple of years back. I was an avid reader till it went, I probably spent more time reading teletext than watching TV programmes. I miss it and also miss ITV's teletext service.

In the last couple of years I have had to make do with Aertel which is a poor subsititute and of course it will be gone tomorrow as well. Recently (this is nerdy) I decided to record as much Aertel as possible before the switchoff. As I went through it I discovered a lot of tripe that I would not have read previously. Paddy Power, Boylesports, dating pages etc. Also a lot of ugly graphics, it's possible to make a teletext page look presentable but many Aertel pages were badly done.

keith16

Only an hour to go now. Quick someone check the football scores there.

BillyMitchel

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BYE BYE!!

biko

ANXIOUS wrote: »

Not even for cinema schedules? Lotto results?

Nope, nothing.

The only time I've used/seen it is when I pressed the button by mistake and couldn't find the "back to TV" button

RainyDay

ANXIOUS wrote: »

Didn't they have a problem page as well?

Or 'porn' as it was called in the pre-internet days.

Emeraldy Pebbles

Sofaspud wrote: »

I only started using Ceefax after they moved the Aertel letters page to RTE1 and it became crap and they stopped updating it.

That and 606, which was infinitely better than Aertel 180 because you could still watch TV. Only problem was the lack of Irish channel listings!

They did have them, 609, I think?

Emeraldy Pebbles

Love how it got its name:

Ceefax = seeing the facts.

Internet Hero

im mad depresed now, so wouldnt mind if i was switched off like teletext too

dvpower

Didn't they have subtitles on page 888? What's going to happen to them?

Sofaspud

Emeraldy Pebbles wrote: »

They did have them, 609, I think?

But not in the "what's on now" box, you'd have to wait for it to get around to the current tiem to see what was on at the moment.

MrJoeSoap

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23:59:59. RIP.

(Taken on Digital, yes!)

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johnmcdnl

I remember the days when I had no internet or sky to follow the NFL or NHL - 380 for other sports(388 for the actual results afaik) was a godsend albeit that reading a quick summary of the games was **** considering you'd have to often have to read a couple other pages of crap about the results of the hockey and speedway and all that ****e first and it would take a day or so to get the results up.

Tbh - I'm more sad to see it go due to the fact that I'll never see it again more than anything else :-(

Jimoslimos

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Remember Bamboozle on Channel 4 ?

I think it was Bamboozle, or another quiz perhaps where you could determine whether your chosen answer was correct by checking the page it was loading, 3/4 would be the same and 1 would bring you to the next Q. If you were quick you could flick between them all before the next page loaded.