A Global Look at Teletext
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A Global Look at Teletext
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Re: A Global Look at Teletext
#2Thanks for sending me down a little mini rabbit hole, this triggered some memories on old teletext decoders for Amiga back in the 90s.
Anyway, I distinctly remember my father getting a new TV with teletext around 1987, and I could play endlessly with that. Also amazing that up until way in the 2000s I knew people who relied on it as the primary source for basic headlines, weather, but also traffic information on trains as well as expected landing times for airplanes. Of course the football standings in the Dutch Eredivisie was possibly the most viewed page of all. Completely wiped out by the internet, but all in all a surprisingly long run for any tech.
p.s. online still available (Dutch)
Re: A Global Look at Teletext
#3Irish Teletext no mentioned :'(:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT%C3%89_Aertel
I don't have terrestrial TV (saorview) anymore to test, but apparently its still broadcast according to the wiki.
Teletext was very handy pre-internet, weather, news, TV listings, flight times etc, all on a feed.
Re: A Global Look at Teletext
#4Thanks for sending me down a little mini rabbit hole, this triggered some memories on old teletext decoders for Amiga back in the 90s. Anyway, I distinctly remember my father getting a new TV with teletext around 1987, and I could play endlessly with that. Also amazing that up until way in the 2000s I knew people who relied on it as the primary source for basic headlines, weather, but also traffic information on trai…
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Re: A Global Look at Teletext
#5Irish Teletext no mentioned :'(: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT%C3%89_Aertel I don't have terrestrial TV (saorview) anymore to test, but apparently its still broadcast according to the wiki. Teletext was very handy pre-internet, weather, news, TV listings, flight times etc, all on a feed.
In case anyone wants to dispute VagabundoP's chronology:
The Internet was invented in 1973 and testing began of the new protocols in 1975.
Teletext, in the form of Ceefax, was pioneered by the BBC in 1972.
So yes, Teletext was indeed pre-Internet. (-:
Re: A Global Look at Teletext
#6"Poland started with teletext broadcasts in 1988, the year before they exited the USSR."
It's a small detail but Poland was never a part of the USSR. Could be changed to "exited the Eastern Bloc".
Re: A Global Look at Teletext
#7Thanks for sending me down a little mini rabbit hole, this triggered some memories on old teletext decoders for Amiga back in the 90s. Anyway, I distinctly remember my father getting a new TV with teletext around 1987, and I could play endlessly with that. Also amazing that up until way in the 2000s I knew people who relied on it as the primary source for basic headlines, weather, but also traffic information on trai…
>Completely wiped out by the internet
It's not at all, although we can discuss the nature of the medium.
>Last year, the Teletekst app was used daily by an average of 690,000 people. They opened the app an average of 2.4 million times per day. The news index on page 101 was accessed 1.9 billion times in 2024, making it the most visited page, followed by the football index 801, with 530 million visits.
https://nos.nl/artikel/2561892-informatief-en-zonder-poppenk... (Dutch news article)
Re: A Global Look at Teletext
#8Thanks for sending me down a little mini rabbit hole, this triggered some memories on old teletext decoders for Amiga back in the 90s. Anyway, I distinctly remember my father getting a new TV with teletext around 1987, and I could play endlessly with that. Also amazing that up until way in the 2000s I knew people who relied on it as the primary source for basic headlines, weather, but also traffic information on trai…
>Completely wiped out by the internet It's not at all, although we can discuss the nature of the medium. >Last year, the Teletekst app was used daily by an average of 690,000 people. They opened the app an average of 2.4 million times per day. The news index on page 101 was accessed 1.9 billion times in 2024, making it the most visited page, followed by the football index 801, with 530 million visits. https://nos.nl/…
Still that many! Incredible. I do remember reading about Dutch teletext being maintained (content wise) by only one or two people. Fascinating phenomenon.
Re: A Global Look at Teletext
#9Irish Teletext no mentioned :'(: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT%C3%89_Aertel I don't have terrestrial TV (saorview) anymore to test, but apparently its still broadcast according to the wiki. Teletext was very handy pre-internet, weather, news, TV listings, flight times etc, all on a feed.
In case anyone wants to dispute VagabundoP's chronology: The Internet was invented in 1973 and testing began of the new protocols in 1975. Teletext, in the form of Ceefax, was pioneered by the BBC in 1972. So yes, Teletext was indeed pre-Internet. (-:
And in Ireland home internet dial up didn't really appear until the mid 90's outside of very dedicated ISDN setups.
Re: A Global Look at Teletext
#10Thanks for sending me down a little mini rabbit hole, this triggered some memories on old teletext decoders for Amiga back in the 90s. Anyway, I distinctly remember my father getting a new TV with teletext around 1987, and I could play endlessly with that. Also amazing that up until way in the 2000s I knew people who relied on it as the primary source for basic headlines, weather, but also traffic information on trai…
I just found out today that the Dutch teletext can be viewed through ssh:
`ssh teletekst.nl`