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Article #625642Re: The extinct tech you forgot existed
From: Jorgen Grahn
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 20:06
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 20:06
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On Mon, 2018-08-20, Anssi Saari wrote:
> Ian
> <${send-direct-email-to-news1021...@jusme.com>
> writes:
>
>> "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.
Sweden, too. I suspect a lot of people still use it for news, since:
- It's by nature brief and text-only.
- You can read it during commercial breaks or when there's briefly
something boring on in general.
> 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...
:-) I prefer to think they have a skilled artist who has done it
continuously since (say) 1982.
/Jorgen
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// Jorgen Grahn <grahn@ Oo o. . .
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