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...
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Dan Farrimond
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...
‘Santa Should be Banned’ and other things we learned about Christmas from teletext
Life in the 80s and 90s was hard. If you wanted to know something you’d have to put on clothes and walk to a library, only to find that it was closed for Christmas. Thankfully, knowledge-hungry types with teletext televisions had access to a...
Remembering Teletext Ltd, the ‘world’s largest TV text service’ nine years on
It’s exactly nine years since Teletext Ltd hosted its last full news edition of analogue teletext. On 14 December 2009, the ‘world’s largest TV text service’ said its final farewells with a selection of stories and art...
Jason Robertson’s ‘Teletext Archaeologist’ Website Now Online
Teletext Archaeologist Jason Robertson has launched his new website, ‘A Visual and Interactive Teletext History’, which will focus on his continued efforts to recover teletext from an ever growing collection of video tapes in his garage...
Teletext Time Machine: A full Ceefax service from 1979
Ever wanted to hop in a time machine and go back to 1979? Me neither – I couldn’t live without my Tamagotchi. But thanks to Jason Robertson‘s first VHS tape recovery from the 1970s, you can revisit the decade without worrying about...
30 classic teletext services now available courtesy Alistair Buxton
Yes, you read that right! Alistair Buxton, he of VHS-Teletext tape recovery software fame, has posted thirty new (well, old) teletext services for you to browse at your leisure. Here’s a message from the man himself: Unlike Jason [Robertson] I...
The Soundtrack To Teletext Vol 1
…Or more specifically, 4-Tel on View. Grab your VHS cassette, ram it into the slot and fire up the gramophone for this recommended playlist courtesy Channel 4 Teletext!
Grabs recovered from VHS by Jason Robertson. See more here.
