Once upon a time in Europe, television remote controls had a magic teletext button. Years before the internet stole into homes, pressing that button brought up teletext digital information services ...

Want to relive the days of Ceefax? All you need is a Raspberry Pi computer, an analogue TV and a computing degree ... Name: Teefax. Age: About a month old. Appearance: Blocky, quaint. Teefax? That ...

Way back in the 70s, the UK and BBC rolled out teletext – an information retrieval service that’s much closer to the ‘television screens connected to computers the size of a room’ popularized by 1960s ...

Europeans take teletext so much for granted that the excitement David Carlson displayed in his recent item allows for a fresh look from the trenches. In Switzerland, Teletext is the single most ...

Ceefax - a play on the words "see facts" - was launched by the BBC on 1 November 1974 with a team of eight: four sub-editors (journalists) and four researchers The world's first teletext service is to ...

"For nostalgia buffs and children of the 90s", says Telekom in its announcement of the new teletext service, the old information service has been available via Magenta TV for a few days now. The ...

This article was taken from the July 2012 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by ...

Well, for just 24 hours, you will be able relive the 90s by scrolling through the iconic TV information service on Teletext Holidays. The rollback, on Thursday March 16, is part of the ...

Ceefax is being laid to rest. Mort Smith, who worked on the service during its early days, remembers the pioneering teletext service. The invention of teletext back in the early 1970s was something of ...

New service can be accessed easily from an old TV A GROUP of tech boffins has brought back Teletext – by launching a new “revamped” version. Nostalgic software engineers and artists have made a ...