I'm an american who grew up in Europe in the 90s. I used teletext all the time. It was great. It used roughly the same tech as closed captioning to send pages of text with primitive markup to TVs. sports, news, weather, subtitles, etc. Was in the UK recently and the replacement for it is garbage. The US never introduced it because of cost of the recievers. I want it back so bad
hey i remember this
when you put in a number of the page you wanted to view, why didn't it jump to the page directly, but counted towards it?
TVs contained memory to store all 999 pages, and the signal just ran through constantly re-broadcasting all the pages.
subtitles were 888, right?
>TVs contained memory to store all 999 pages
Late model CRTs maybe, it was far from the norm earlier. The TV's I remember from my 80's and 90's childhood did not have any page cache at all.
Danish teletext is still going (I just learned). Can be browsed online here: https://www.dr.dk/cgi-bin/fttv1.exe/100
yeah. cos. it was just a few lines of the display = data. you could adjust the xhold on a tv and you would see a few lines of pixelated stuff at the top. flickering. that was the ceefax data. i would cycle round pages. the remote 'dialer' set the page and it would have to wait until that page cyled thru
It is still used
https://teletext.rtvslo.si/
https://teletext.orf.at/
my country still has it too
Hello neighbor
>cифaкc
I visited the Old Dark back in the 1990s. Holy shit the 50Hz TV flicker - how did people live with that? I understand why our German friends were all hyped about 100Hz CRTs when they came out - no shit, finally not having the flicker must have been a godsend.
Teletext is still going strong here. And ye 888 is closed captions.
I still use a text tv app, its great its just short plain news without filler text
It was like a primitive internet, right? Websites
I remember in 2007 trying to convince myself I didn't need the internet because teletext had everything. We didn't have a landline because too poor to pay the line rental so I never even got dial-up
Same. I'm a burger who grew up in Europe in the early 2000s. Teletext was the shit.
Fun fact; VHS recordings technically also saved teletext but the signal is usually too degraded to be decodable by the tv. It can however be decoded by modern software. If you have any VHS / betamax recordings from the 70s and 80s they are worth their weight in gold. Doesn't matter what program was recorded as long as it was broadcast tv with a teletext signal collectors will pay thousands for this shit especially 1972 stuff
Wow, TIL. Too bad I don't have anything, but thanks anyway.
I hate nostalgiafags so much, it's unreal.
WHAT'S THERE TO MISS YOU RETARD? We all grew up with it. But why would I want it back?
It's not like it's something God sent to earth. Just some random tech people made up, replaced by other random tech people made up. Who cares?
Nostalgiahomosexualry genuinly has to be a mental illness.
BECAUSE THE MODERN WORLD IS SOULESS I WANT TO GO BACK TO BETTER TIMES
Teletext is also the modern world, you literal retard.
Nothing from then has more """soul""" than tech from today, you're just biased because you experienced it as a kid.
If a human from the year 3000 time travels back to 2023, he will not see any difference in tech from 2020 and 2000, it's literally just 20 years. You're so stupid, it's crazy.
Soulless poster
Kissless hugless handheldless poster
>NPC is sex obsessed degen
Figures
>kissing, hugging and holding hands is sex
Wow you really are retarded
Yes, because there was already an ongoing industrialization in 1780, so would not be that much of a difference to 1800.
But besides that, we didn't have any fucking revolution from 2000 until today you retard.
That's not the point we're talking about. I didn't say it wasn't nice or didn't have its place, I'm just shitting on fags that are nostalgic about dead tech.
>we didn't have any fucking revolution from 2000 until today you retard.
What are smartphones
Incremental step in the digital revolution that started decades earlier than that. It didn't start in the 2000s.
the industrial revolution was also an incremental step in the boiling water revolution
There is no boiling water revolution, I used official terms, you just talk shit out of your ass.
i think you'll find that without boiling water, the industrial revolution would not have happened
>If a human from the year 2023 time travels back to 1780, he will not see any difference in tech from 1800 and 1780, it's literally just 20 years.
Yeah, all those stream trains and factories that popped up within 20 years during the industrial revolution, nobody noticed the difference!
>200y of goalpost moving
a new record?
You're wrong. Teletext occupied a niche between broadcast and publishing that allowed it to slip under the noses of the regulators of either. Text content like Digitiser was entirely unique, and it's retarded to pretend none of it mattered. You might as well say that the pre-smartphone days of the internet don't matter because Reddit still exists.
This is correct
It was shit so it died when better stuff came along. Zero soul. Tired nostalgia.
Just watched a teletext art show last month
>The US never introduced it because of cost of the recievers.
Bullshit, that was not the reason.
American tv sets used the same place in the signal as teletext to carry v-chip information, and they had no problem with the costs of having EVERY tv set be equipped with a v-chip.
>Was in the UK recently and the replacement for it is garbage
i didn't realise we'd replaced it at all
Still alive in Spain. Here new TVs have teletext, even in 4K resolution.
>chico anorexico, poco dotado
mejor hazte femboy y ya wtf
Interesting 1975 behind the scenes news segment about it
Slovakia still have classic teletext