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.

InitiumNovum

I remember the Aertel dating classifieds. Now things have gotten worse with Tinder and all that jazz.

Haven't thought about this in years. Back then, my main sources of TV entertainment were Aertel Teenns' Page and late-night Bravo soft porn.

From what I recall, circa 2000

Aertel Index: 101
Main News Heads: 102
Individual stories: 103
TV: 170
RTE: 171 (Network 2: 172, etc)
What's on Now?: 180
Movies: 183/4
Sports index; 200
Racing: 250
Entertainment: 300
Kids (index): 440
Horoscopes:o: 500
Some Aertel interactive sh1te: 700
Subtitles; 888

Anyway, back to the subject at hand. Does anybody remember some convoluted saga about some kid from Florida writing into that Teen Talk page. I was about 13, so it would have been circa 1999. It went on for weeks, if not months. I reckon (in hindsight) it was a total pisstake. Like who writes to Aertel from Florida? Surely you'd have better things to do?

PizzamanIRL

Horse racing on page 250. Results on 265 i think

Checking the results and patiently waiting for the pages to load

Goat the dote

360 for soap previews

Ruu

Posted this in another thread, teletext babes for those without internet.

Kovu

God yea, I used to write in and give out, venting my teenage angst. I also applied to do a book review and they sent me out a beautiful hardback collectors edition of 'The Magicians Nephew'. Still have that on one of my bookshelves.

The Backwards Man

Kovu wrote: »

God yea, I used to write in and give out, venting my teenage angst. I also applied to do a book review and they sent me out a beautiful hardback collectors edition of 'The Magicians Nephew'. Still have that on one of my bookshelves.

What did you give out about?

Kovu

The Backwards Man wrote: »

What did you give out about?

I remember one of my main rants was animal abuse....the rest obviously wasn't bad enough for me to remember!

The Diabolical Monocle

InitiumNovum wrote: »

I remember the Aertel dating classifieds. Now things have gotten worse with Tinder and all that jazz.

Beat me to it.

Maeve (70), Mayo. seeks tall gent, likes cats. +(097) 437 5

Everythin coming up Milhouse

pg888 for the subtitles for Spongebob on TG4.

Dan man

Celeb birthday page (possibly page 333). Used to try and guess the ages of the celebs with my brother. Also used to check in on the music charts on Aertel.

Doyler92

I don't remember the code but what I do remember was Bamboozle on Channel 4 text.

The King of Moo

Ciaran_B wrote: »

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

Some archived pages here:

http://www.teletext.org.uk/index.php?cat=30_Archived-nbsp~Pages&page=41_Digitiser-nbsp~1995-1998

moc-a moc-a moc!

Chancer3001

Music reviews used be great.

What's in now was the best page ever.

Viewpoint and karma policewoman....my heart just melted a little . I wrote in once, no idea about what. But my name was maleman (so macho) . When people started responding to each other it was insane!!!. Towards the end it was just people writing in bitching about not enough people writing in.

221 for soccer, they used to put any irish players name in green. I also remember checking on ****ty reception and half the page would be blurred or gobbledygook so you'd have to be a detective to figure out the scores.

There used to be a quiz page too. And a jokes page. Loved those.

ChunkyLover54

Chancer3001 wrote: »

Music reviews used be great.

What's in now was the best page ever.

Viewpoint and karma policewoman....my heart just melted a little . I wrote in once, no idea about what. But my name was maleman (so macho) . When people started responding to each other it was insane!!!. Towards the end it was just people writing in bitching about not enough people writing in.

221 for soccer, they used to put any irish players name in green. I also remember checking on ****ty reception and half the page would be blurred or gobbledygook so you'd have to be a detective to figure out the scores.

There used to be a quiz page too. And a jokes page. Loved those.

Karma Policewoman...Christ I totally forgot about that. I wonder who she was.

Some of the letters used to annoy the hell out of me but I still went on to that page everyday....a bit like After Hours I suppose. It was around 1999/2000 .

I still look at p220.

Menas

Once I used my zx spectrum to do a mock up of the Lotto numbers aertel page with the numbers from my Dads lotto ticket on it.
My parents killed me when the 'joke' was revealed.

ChunkyLover54

Trigger Happy wrote: »

Once I used my zx spectrum to do a mock up of the Lotto numbers aertel page with the numbers from my Dads lotto ticket on it.
My parents killed me when the 'joke' was revealed.

At least you got their hopes up.

darlenmol

I used to check it everyday religiously for cheats for snes games

MathDebater

Itv had a great teletext. Especially for transfer gossip. Call 1500- for more about your club. Is Del Piero coming to Old Trafford?

Gotta call to find out!

A few months later and I was grounded for a week. 'Are you calling the sex lines?'

goose1

No idea how to quote but YES to the guy who used to write in to Viewpoint from 'Florida'!!!
Wasn't there some big scandal where eventually Aertel revealed his stamps were in fact from Ireland?:pac:
And the fall out...!

I e-mailed Viewpoint once or twice but this was well after its glory days....

Gotta miss the golden days of Aertel.