Teletext links

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All the teletext stuff I could find compiled into one large, but very handy categorised list. Happy telly-texting.

General teletext resources

Teletext Then and Now: The Teletext Museum collects teletext pages of historical significance, not just from its native United Kingdom but worldwide also.
The Teletext Preservation Project and its sister site Viewdata.org.uk aim to hunt down and archive as many pages as is humanly –and indeed robotically– possible.
The Viewdata and Teletext Frame Database is a browsable catalogue of archived services that aims to become the largest of its kind.
The Teletext Mailing List remains an ‘underground’ source of teletext-related chat, even in this pre-post-teletext era.
The Teletext Facebook Group is the Internet’s largest collection of teletexters. Now with over 500 members, it is the primary teletext news source for social networkers of webland.
The Teletext Archaeologist, AKA Jason Robertson, is recovering teletext recordings from old video tapes. Here is a list of his recoveries displayed in a web viewer.

Super Page 58 is a tribute to Teletext Ltd’s infamous ‘Digitiser’, with over a decade’s worth of Mr Biffo archives.
New Mailbox is an archive of the Paramount Comedy Mailbox service that also collects episodes of the teletext soap ‘Park Avenue’.
The Vegetable Revolution is effectively a successor to Channel 4’s chaotic ‘Mega Zine’, which could be described as a teletext message board. Up until 2012, the new site reprinted letters from the original teletext service.
The Zine Museum, curated by Andrew Nile, collects all known recoveries of the Mega Zine.

The International Teletext Art Festival has been running since 2012, and has broadcast on services in countries such as Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Finland.
The 2006 VBI Microtel project was a service broadcast on Dutch teletext for the 35th International Film Festival in Rotterdam. During its all-too-brief lifespan, it exhibited numerous artists’ teletext designs.
The Teletext Block Party: teletext art on the road. Has hosted workshops and ‘txt parties’ at Tate Britain, St Helens Library and the Superbyte Festival amongst others.
The Museum of Teletext Art showcases prominent pieces of teletext design from 2012 onwards. It has been featured on YLE Text in Finland and ARD Text in Germany.
Teletext40 was the world’s first(?) exclusively online teletext service, created to celebrate 40 years of the medium. In its two-year lifespan, it broadcast hundreds of pages created with the accompanying Teletext40 Editor (now known as Edit-TF). Two ‘Pages From Ceefax’ style videos, known as ‘Teletext40 On View’, were produced.
Teefax is the pioneering VBIT Pi teletext service, but it can also be viewed in a web browser. Within ten minutes, you too can be running a new teletext service on your old television.

The Teletextr Podcast remains the world’s ~~only~~ best teletext radio show. Includes panels from Teletext Fest events and interviews with prominent members of the artisan teletext movement.
Here is a series of YouTube playlists for teletext documentaries, presentations and news stories.

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See here for a more comprehensive list of teletext artist biographies.

Dan Farrimond (that’s me) has been exhibited on teletext services across Europe… and the UK.
Ian ‘Swirv’ Irving designed for Ceefax and 4-Tel, creating cartoon character 4-Tel The Dog.
Steve Horsley is a former employee of Teletext Ltd. who now creates more than just pixel horses.
Raquel Meyers works with text mode formats such as PETSCII and teletext.
Sarah Burgess creates colourful teletext illustrations and cartoons.
~~Here is a gallery of pages made in the Edit-TF teletext editor.~~

Digitiser2000 is the new home of ex-Teletext writer Mr Biffo. He occasionally posts about his experiences working with teletext. See also: Games of My Years: The Digitiser Story.
Chipflip is blog-label about low res crafts such as teletext and text art, while Text-Mode, curated by Goto80 and Raquel Meyers, compiles examples of such art.
Jason Robertson’s Teletext Blog documents pages captured from VHS and Betamax recordings.
S-Config has written an informative blog post on the revival of teletext, with links to useful resources on teletext art.

The Micro Arts Group site includes a detailed timeline on the history of computer art.

Last updated 5 November 2022.