Much like a washed-up 80s rock star who’s run out of cash to pay his TV license, the Teletextr Podcast has returned for a new decade of text ‘n’ bugs ‘n’ remote controls. We begin 2020 with the sad news that the BBC would like to close their Red...
Author - Dan Farrimond
Dan Farrimond
The New Ceefax: Teefax on BBC’s The One Show
For one night only, teletext has made a triumphant return to the BBC. Wednesday’s edition of The One Show featured a segment on Ceefax and its successor Teefax, including contributions from teletext legends Mort Smith and Peter Kwan. The 5...
Teletext’s Bamboozle: 12 things you (probably) didn’t know
Prepare to be Bamboozled, dear reader! Yes, it’s one of those clickbait lists we love like a wayward child who eats buttons off the TV remote. But don’t worry, we won’t include anything like ‘you used the coloured buttons to...
Teletext’s Creative Legacy: new article by WePresent
The artwork of Steve Horsley and Dan Farrimond features in a new article examining how the Internet facilitates teletext as an artistic genre. Written by Craig Oldham for WePresent, the piece details how the format’s technological limitations...
Half a decade of the Museum of Teletext Art
The Museum of Teletext Art will turn 5 years old this summer. Since its launch in August 2014, the teletext-based gallery has broadcast artwork by more than 20 multimedia artists on Finland’s YLE Text. Speaking to ARTE Creative just prior to...
Interview: Goto80 – Text Mode Historian, Chiptune Master and Teletext Artist
This informal chat with text-mode.org founder Anders Carlsson was originally posted at the Illarterate Blog on 21 March 2014. With the Finland leg of the 2013 International Teletext Art Festival underway, we quizzed participating artist Anders...
Teletext graphics characters among those added to Unicode
A proposal to add teletext graphics characters to the Universal Coded Character Set has been accepted by the Unicode Consortium. A total of 214 characters used by legacy computers, including teletext’s box drawing ‘sixels’, will be...
ClubCall and TEAMTalk: A Teletext History
If the Internet invented clickbait, then ClubCall and its competitors were the masters of phonebait. With increasingly juicy teletext headlines, they lured many a football supporter into their premium rate hotlines relaying pre-recorded news, gossip...
