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 Post subject: Re: Teletext
PostPosted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 16:47 
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I thought the plural was just Mr Chris like "fish" or "sheep", the collective noun is "cardigan".


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 Post subject: Re: Teletext
PostPosted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 17:15 
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"Oh look, a Cardigan of Mr Chris are wrongulating towards us."

Yeah, that works.


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 Post subject: Re: Teletext
PostPosted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 17:20 
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Actually isn't it a "sock puppet"


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 Post subject: Re: Teletext
PostPosted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 17:22 
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Anonymous X wrote:
December the 15th is the Official Teletext Death Day, apparently.

What a way to go.

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 Post subject: Re: Teletext
PostPosted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 17:40 
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Cliff Richardoz wrote:
Anonymous X wrote:
December the 15th is the Official Teletext Death Day, apparently.

What a way to go.

Not with a bang, but with a whimper.

Depressing, really. I know I don't 'feel' too concerned about missing Teletext, but I've been reading it and its predecessor Oracle since I was in primary school (Oracle kids' page in that case), and it's been an unchanged technological medium when so much else has come and gone around it. Err, kind of like CDs, then.


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 Post subject: Re: Teletext
PostPosted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 17:45 
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And Chinny.

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 Post subject: Re: Teletext
PostPosted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 14:09 
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Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand it's gone.


*sniff*



I didn't even think of tuning into it last night to see if it had any special goodbye screens a la Oracle around New Year 92/93. Anyone saved any screens anywhere on the web?


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 Post subject: Re: Teletext
PostPosted: Thu Dec 17, 2009 0:40 
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Dunno whom exactly has saved screengrabs, but I bet someone somewhere would have.

Wasn't much of a goodbye, to be honest, at least on Channel 4 Teletext. Nothing like the drawn-out Oracle farewell, which I also remember. Was just a few pages mentioning that the Teletext service was closing, a page with some teletext graphics from the past and a re-run of a random Turner the Worm story(!) and nothing much more. Really was an anticlimax.


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 Post subject: Re: Teletext
PostPosted: Thu Dec 17, 2009 0:43 
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MarzSyndrome wrote:
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand it's gone.


*sniff*



I didn't even think of tuning into it last night to see if it had any special goodbye screens a la Oracle around New Year 92/93. Anyone saved any screens anywhere on the web?


Oracle actually slowly deleted all the pages up to midnight so all you were left with was the index.


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 Post subject: Re: Teletext
PostPosted: Thu Dec 17, 2009 0:48 
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Found some Oracle screengrabs. Memories, eh?

http://teletext.mb21.co.uk/gallery/oracle/


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 Post subject: Re: Teletext
PostPosted: Thu Dec 17, 2009 0:53 
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I had a teletext adaptor for my CPC as in those days few TV's had the service. You could even download games sometimes from the software pages. However they rarely worked as error correction on teletext was non existent!


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 Post subject: Re: Teletext
PostPosted: Thu Dec 17, 2009 9:18 
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chinnyhill10 wrote:
I had a teletext adaptor for my CPC as in those days few TV's had the service. You could even download games sometimes from the software pages. However they rarely worked as error correction on teletext was non existent!

You're not kidding. We never had teletext when I was a kid, so when I got my first job, I bought an ex-rental from Rumbelows with FASTEXT (fasttext?)! Through my weedy set top aerial, you were lucky if you could understand even the clock in the top right :)


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 Post subject: Re: Teletext
PostPosted: Fri Dec 20, 2024 9:41 
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Just flicking through the radio listings and saw this for 9pm on Christmas Day over on Radio 4:

Ceefax Strikes Back... with Count Binface

Probably won't catch it live but sounds interesting. Will have to see if it can live up to the premise, but always good when the intergalatic space warrior blesses us with a visitation.

And yes, I did dig up the smouldering corpse of a 15 year thread full of ghosts rather than post this in the podcast thread.


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 Post subject: Re: Teletext
PostPosted: Fri Dec 20, 2024 10:10 
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Reading back through this thread was a blast from the past in every sense


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 Post subject: Re: Teletext
PostPosted: Fri Dec 20, 2024 12:53 
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Better start doing your screen grabs of BEEX now, so you can enjoy them in the privacy of your own home.


And in years to come, you'll be able to show your grandkids what social media could be like, before it got banned in the big Online Safety Debacle of 2024/5.


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