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Article #625643Re: The extinct tech you forgot existed
From: Andrew Swallow
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 20:46
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 20:46
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On 20/08/2018 21:06, Jorgen Grahn wrote:
> 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
>
Teletext worked on analog TV channels. In Britain the BBC has a
replacement on its digital channels called the 'Red Button' service. You
press the red button on TV remote controls to access the service.
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