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The most popular page was the dating page. It was the equivalent of tinder on those days, worked surprisingly well.
I’d like to add that Dutch state news broadcaster NOS now offers Teletext though SSH. Just type `ssh teletekst.nl` and you can browse through all their pages. They fully revamped their Teletext backend a couple of years ago to their own solution. They had archaic hardware still, and had to fly in some one from the UK (fully pensioned and well) to service it
It was somewhat unique in that (at least originally) it only transmitted bitmap graphics, rather than having a hybrid system with some characters in ROM and others dynamically loaded.
1981 publication with specs of the pilot system (PDF): https://hcs64.com/files/Harashima,%20Kumamoto,%20Kitamura%20...
I think teletext is what triggered my interest in computers etc. It was one of my first experiences with anything computer like. When I was around 9 years old I was visiting my grandmother just the day she was having her new TV delivered. This must have been in the late 80s and we didn't have a computer or anything. I didn't care that much for the TV itself but then he the TV installation guy wanted to show this cool…