BBC Ceefax, the world's first teletext service, ceased transmission on Tuesday after delivering 38 years of up-to-the-minute news and sports updates to the British public. Olympic champion Mary Peters ...

“One page of the Times Newspaper, to be transmitted during shutdown.” That, so the story goes, was the remit given to BBC engineers in the late 1960s: find a way to transmit a printable page of text ...

We bid a fond farewell to BBC Ceefax, the world's first teletext service, as the analogue TV signal makes way for 4G. See you, Ceefax. That digital switchover we’ve been hearing about for years is ...

After 38 years the BBC is retiring Ceefax, ending the first era of digital content delivery to the home. Launched in 1974, Ceefax was the world’s first teletext service—a proto-Internet delivering ...

The BBC's iconic teletext information service Ceefax will be switched off on Tuesday evening after 38 years of providing information to viewers. Olympic champion Dame Mary Peters will stop analogue ...

Who doesn't like a bit of nostalgia? We remember Ceefax, the teletext service that gave us news and a whole lot more at our fingertips. Read: Ceefax service closes down after 38 years on BBC Read: ...

The world's first teletext service is to be celebrated at a special exhibition marking its 50th anniversary. Today people take interactive television services and news on demand for granted, but their ...

Ceefax went live fifty years ago. BBC journalist and former Ceefax sports editor Ian Westbrook recalls the years when teletext ruled the airwaves. Imagine a world where you could not call up the ...

Old-school teletext with its pixelated text and block graphics may now be largely a thing of the past, but that doesn’t mean it’s without enthusiasts or there’s no more life in the idea. [M7TJF] has a ...