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Article #625641Re: The extinct tech you forgot existed
From: Anssi Saari
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 11:56
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 11:56
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> "Teletext was the equivalent service on channels such as ITV and Channel 4"
>
> Teletext was the technology, Ceefax was the BBC version and Oracle was the
> commercial one...
I had no idea Teletext has died in the UK. Still available in Finland at
least and still handy for news headlines and weather. Although some
channels have given up on it and what remains is pretty bare bones. But
they still manage to have ads there. I sometimes wonder where they get
the pixel artists for the ads and whether there's a Photoshop plugin of
some sort available...
Interesting point about overhead projectors too. I study Italian in
night school and they seem to have a modernized OHP. Well, the projector
part is just your common computer connected projector in the ceiling and
the teacher's desk has what amounts to a PC connected camera setup so
whatever's under the camera comes out of the projector.
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From: Anssi Saari <a...@sci.fi>
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Subject: Re: The extinct tech you forgot existed
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 14:56:13 +0300
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