Ceefax.
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.
Ceefax Simulator
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#12I built a demo app based on this format, but over a phone line. Blowed if I can remember the name of the technology. Early 80s anyone?
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#13I built a demo app based on this format, but over a phone line. Blowed if I can remember the name of the technology. Early 80s anyone?
Minitel?
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#14Germany's public broadcaster still offers an official website to see their current teletext: https://www.ard-text.de/
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#15Ok 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.
Would be cool if this data coule be injected in the signal to a TV. Bring back Ceefax! :-D
In some countries it still exists though, which is pretty wild.
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#16I built a demo app based on this format, but over a phone line. Blowed if I can remember the name of the technology. Early 80s anyone?
Minitel?
Mm ... thanks, maybe, but doesn't feel quite right.
Problem was it used a normal TV so when demoing it, if the line dropped you got whatever was on TV. Less than impressive!
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#17The Slovenian national TV maintains a web version of the Teletext: https://teletext.rtvslo.si/
My father still uses it (on the TV) to read the sports news.
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#18This 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…
The expensive TV sets cached the previous page, so you could flip between them. The really expensive sets cached ALL pages.
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#19Games 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
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#20We still use teletext in the Netherlands. I check it every morning for the latest news.