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By *hyllyphylly OP Man
over a year ago

Bradford

.... they was Ceefax. Today marks the 40th anniversary of it starting, 23/9/74.

Anyone actually miss it?

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By *arehamMan
over a year ago

handforth

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By *londeCazWoman
over a year ago

Arse End of the Universe, Cumbria

Good lord...I remember my mate getting her birthday put up on ceefax in the early days

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By *unky monkeyMan
over a year ago

in the night garden

The graphics were good. They would draw Margaret Thatcher's face out of a grid 6x6 blocks. At least I think it was Thatcher, might have been Pac-Man.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I remember looking at holidays on teletext...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

im no spring chicken but my mind = blown at the thought of a time without the net

and its still a relatively new thing but its literally taken over the world

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Waiting for the football results and someone distracting you for the three milliseconds that your result was on the screen meaning you has to wait for another 73 pages to pass again

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I remember waiting for a particular page and it being a looonnngggg time!

And the game Bamboozle, or was that just on teletext?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

And there were porn mags to be found discarded in bushes. Don't see that anymore

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By *issHottieBottieWoman
over a year ago

Kent

"I remember waiting for a particular page and it being a looonnngggg time!

And the game Bamboozle, or was that just on teletext?"

Bamboozle!! As I saw the thread title I was trying to think of that game, that was teletext you had to push the coloured buttons for the answers x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

".... they was Ceefax. Today marks the 40th anniversary of it starting, 23/9/74.

Anyone actually miss it?"

Quite frankly I hardly ever used it.

but being a tech guy I had dial up internet connections and old ISDN, so Ceefax felt legacy when it was released to be fair.

Still, if it wasn't for that the rest wouldn't have come in. ; )

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By *ricky_DickyMan
over a year ago

Mirfield

".... they was Ceefax. Today marks the 40th anniversary of it starting, 23/9/74.

Anyone actually miss it?

Quite frankly I hardly ever used it.

but being a tech guy I had dial up internet connections and old ISDN, so Ceefax felt legacy when it was released to be fair.

Still, if it wasn't for that the rest wouldn't have come in. ; )"

According to your profile your not old enough to remember the launch of Ceefax, launched 40 years ago, your only 26, unless you're fibbing about your age

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

".... they was Ceefax. Today marks the 40th anniversary of it starting, 23/9/74.

Anyone actually miss it?

Quite frankly I hardly ever used it.

but being a tech guy I had dial up internet connections and old ISDN, so Ceefax felt legacy when it was released to be fair.

Still, if it wasn't for that the rest wouldn't have come in. ; )

According to your profile your not old enough to remember the launch of Ceefax, launched 40 years ago, your only 26, unless you're fibbing about your age

Ceefax was on our old CRT TV. I wasn't there for the launch, but it was on there. Teletext and whatnot.

I had a Commodore 64 as a child. I wasn't exactly around for that either but it was there. lol

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