Italian national broadcaster RAI still has the equivalent of this, up and running on the DVB-T2 digital broadcasting standard and also online: https://www.televideo.rai.it/televideo/pub/index.jsp
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#23Ok dialing in 360 for the first time in over 25 years and receiving modern F1 results was an absolute surprise. This is an incredible recreation.
888 should result in text on a transparent screen, whether or not there are subtitles available. Here it does nothing.
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#24Ceefax. I’d not thought of this before, but could it display Fax pages? An absurdly daft retro hack, and I’m guessing it has been done several times already.
No, it could not.
I haven't seen a recreation that was as accurate in its interface, nor one with such up-to-date data.
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#25Games reviews on 4tel, channel 4’s version. Holiday booking on another version. It used to be they stopped broadcasting during the afternoon, replacing it with “Pages from Ceefax” along with some bespoke muzak, the tune with the barking dogs made me smile. Angela Ripon explaining from 1975: https://youtu.be/ICoj8mxG0ww “BBC2 Pages From Ceefax - Mon 26 Aug 1996 - Slide Rule” https://youtu.be/j9Aiiekfqiw
The games section was Digitiser[1] and was remarkably popular: basically everyone I knew in the 90s that was vaguely into games read it.
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#26Germany's public broadcaster still offers an official website to see their current teletext: https://www.ard-text.de/
Same in the Netherlands: https://nos.nl/teletekst
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#27Nostalgic to see, similarly available by the Swedish national broadcaster SVT, https://www.svt.se/text-tv/100
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#28This is great. Teletext was a big deal in the UK, a lot of people used to book cheap holidays from deals they saw on it. It was where you could check the news, the weather and maybe play a multiple choice quiz or two. Happy memories.
Am I misremembering or could you play games on Teletext? I feel like I remember playing very primitive and janky videogames on the TV as a child in the 90s, but I might be making that up. My clearest memory of Teletext is how slooooow and unreliable it was to load anything. But I sat it out and waited. Compare that to now where if your website takes an extra second to load then you can lose like half your traffic. Ev…
I remember channel 4 had "bamboozle" - a basic janky quiz game - on their Teletext service, it was a daily adventure between friends to solve each day.
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#29This is great. Teletext was a big deal in the UK, a lot of people used to book cheap holidays from deals they saw on it. It was where you could check the news, the weather and maybe play a multiple choice quiz or two. Happy memories.
Am I misremembering or could you play games on Teletext? I feel like I remember playing very primitive and janky videogames on the TV as a child in the 90s, but I might be making that up. My clearest memory of Teletext is how slooooow and unreliable it was to load anything. But I sat it out and waited. Compare that to now where if your website takes an extra second to load then you can lose like half your traffic. Ev…
There were definitely puzzles, quizzes, and jokes. You could reveal the answers by pressing the "Reveal" button on your TV remote. I don't remember games per se.
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#30Noooo, there's no page 370. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digitiser
This takes me right back to grabbing my morning cup of tea and sitting bleary eye'd while waking up and reading the latest computer news before school. Hmm, not much has changed to be honest!