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Aertel page 448

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  • #32
    InitiumNovum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 54 ✭✭InitiumNovum


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


  • #33
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 13,712 ✭✭✭✭ [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?


  • #34
    PizzamanIRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


    Horse racing on page 250. Results on 265 i think

    Checking the results and patiently waiting for the pages to load


  • #35
    Goat the dote
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 726 ✭✭✭Goat the dote


    360 for soap previews


  • #36
    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


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


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  • #37
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #38
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭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?


  • #39
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭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!


  • #40
    The Diabolical Monocle
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,618 ✭✭✭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


  • #41
    Everythin coming up Milhouse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 89 ✭✭Everythin coming up Milhouse


    pg888 for the subtitles for Spongebob on TG4.


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  • #42
    Dan man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,076 ✭✭✭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.


  • #43
    Doyler92
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,664 ✭✭✭Doyler92


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


  • #44
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭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!


  • #45
    Chancer3001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,480 ✭✭✭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.


  • #46
    ChunkyLover54
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 564 ✭✭✭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.


  • #47
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #48
    ChunkyLover54
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 564 ✭✭✭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.


  • #49
    darlenmol
    Closed Accounts Posts: 186 ✭✭darlenmol


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


  • #50
    MathDebater
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 958 ✭✭✭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?'


  • #51
    goose1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 93 ✭✭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.


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  • #52
    Son Of A Vidic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭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.:)


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