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Aertel page 448

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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?

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InitiumNovum

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

[Deleted User]

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.

Son Of A Vidic

goose1 wrote: »

No idea how to quote...

Just left click on the quote tab you see in the post you want to quote. Then type your reply beneath the quoted post. The quote tab is located in the bottom right hand corner of every post.:)