Aertel page 448

gg2

Does anyone else remember this?

Just saw a picture on facebook of the aertel homescreen and it brought me straight back.
It was like my first foray into social networking, teens would write letters in and they would be published weekly, people had screen names... I even think a couple of people met through it and were dating. Distinctly remember reading it every Tuesday/ Thursday night while waiting for Boston Public to come on.

Am I alone?

LDN_Irish

Is this the golden age "when kids could be kids" that I've been hearing about since I was a child? Sounds sh1te.

artanevilla

Page 221 for the Prem scores and page 238 for the LOI scores.

kneemos

Only closed a few years ago.

JaMarcusHustle

I remember page 180 for What's On Now.

sabat

kneemos wrote: »

Only closed a few years ago.

I still look at the headlines on it every morning while drinking my coffee...

gg2

JaMarcusHustle wrote: »

I remember page 180 for What's On Now.

And 150 for having to check everyones lotto tickets when I was about 8. Sometimes I just put scratches through the whole lot of them - most boring job ever

Falthyron

artanevilla wrote: »

Page 221 for the Prem scores and page 238 for the LOI scores.

239 for the Premier League table

kneemos

Really handy for listings and sports results.
Now you have to search several different websites for information that used to be in one place.

gg2

kneemos wrote: »

Only closed a few years ago.

Do you remember the name of it? I'd swear it was something cheesy ending in "chat" or "talk". Teentalk or something

Birneybau

kneemos wrote: »

Really handy for listings and sports results.
Now you have to search several different websites for information that used to be in one place.

No. It's essentially the RTE website...

Ciaran_B

Digitiser on Channel 4. Best video games magazine ever, had some of the funniest teletext characters around.

kneemos

sabat wrote: »

I still look at the headlines on it every morning while drinking my coffee...

Ah it's on the official whatyoucallthem boxes.

Jesus. Had forgotten the letters. The days before the www.

dmc17

JaMarcusHustle wrote: »

I remember page 180 for What's On Now.

And I think it was 182 for a list of movies on today and 183 for a description of them

Talib Fiasco

220 for the soccer news and 200 for sport news. Many a transfer deadline day spent refreshing 220. Crazy times.

gidget

Bamboozle on Channel 4 with Bamber, Babette, Buster & Bonnie Boozler was a good one, a daily quiz show & on Saturdays they'd do a junior version. Can't recall the page no. as it switched around a few times.

JTL

gg2 wrote: »

Does anyone else remember this?

Just saw a picture on facebook of the aertel homescreen and it brought me straight back.
It was like my first foray into social networking, teens would write letters in and they would be published weekly, people had screen names... I even think a couple of people met through it and were dating. Distinctly remember reading it every Tuesday/ Thursday night while waiting for Boston Public to come on.

Am I alone?

You are not alone. I remember that page also. always remember a letter writer called 'Karma Policewoman'. She was excellent.

Eggonyerface

Channel 4 and paramount comedy channel had the best teletexts by far

Macavity.

Falthyron wrote: »

239 for the Premier League table

Was it not 237?

sabat

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't there some form of typographical XXX content on C4 late at night? Or maybe some crude pics of chicks?

hatrickpatrick

Going to page 799 and pressing red to get to 7AA, then proudly proclaiming yourself a "hacker"

http://teletext.mb21.co.uk/gallery/eire/aertel/799.gif
http://teletext.mb21.co.uk/gallery/eire/aertel/7aa.gif

joe stodge

JaMarcusHustle wrote: »

I remember page 180 for What's On Now.

182 today's movies

the groutch

artanevilla wrote: »

Page 221 for the Prem scores and page 238 for the LOI scores.

316 on ceefax was much better for the footie scores

JaMarcusHustle

gg2 wrote: »

Do you remember the name of it? I'd swear it was something cheesy ending in "chat" or "talk". Teentalk or something

I think it was Viewpoint.

BrianD3

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't there some form of typographical XXX content on C4 late at night? Or maybe some crude pics of chicks?

There was a "sex" section on ITV/C4 teletext in early 1993. Dirty stories and sex problem pages etc. It didn't last long though, maybe a couple of months. It was called After Hours and was only available after 11 pm.

gg2

JTL wrote: »

You are not alone. I remember that page also. always remember a letter writer called 'Karma Policewoman'. She was excellent.

YES! She was like the frigging oracle of life!

Toto Wolfcastle

JTL wrote: »

You are not alone. I remember that page also. always remember a letter writer called 'Karma Policewoman'. She was excellent.

Wow, that takes me back. I used to read that all the time. I remember her.

gg2

Bobblehead Panda wrote: »

Wow, that takes me back. I used to read that all the time. I remember her.

I think I was just going into 1st year so it was about 13/14 years ago... Crazy how it just popped into my head tonight. I remember writing a few awkward teenage letters but being so cringed out by them I just threw them in the bin rather than post them

riffmongous

Anyone remember the birthday page? 444 maybe? That takes me back

tony 2 tone

Ciaran_B wrote: »

Digitiser on Channel 4. Best video games magazine ever, had some of the funniest teletext characters around.

I remember Gossi the dog, the Man and the Man's Daddy! That was some surreal stuff.