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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
…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.
Do you see? Here we have a New Year’s treat courtesy The Industrious Ant on Twitter. It’s time to video-me-do back in time 22 years to 1 January 1993 and relive the first edition of daily video game magazine Digitiser. To reiterate, original writer...
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