Kids these days are missing out. Oh yes, they have the world at their fingertips thanks to 'the internet' (pfft) but they just won't ever know the joy of sitting cross-legged in front of your tea, ...

Before the emergence of Twitter and 24-hour online news, the main way of finding out what was happening in the world came via newspapers and the radio. But with the launch of the BBC's Ceefax – the ...

The world's first teletext service is to be celebrated at a special exhibition marking its 50th anniversary. Today people take interactive television services and news on demand for granted, but their ...

It was lukneu who succeeded in playing DOOM using teletext. lukneu uses teletext to convert the data for rendering DOOM so that it can be sent by teletext, pipes the rendered data to an application ...

This article was taken from the July 2012 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by ...

Ceefax (a play on “see facts”), the world’s first teletext service, went live on 23 September 1974, with 30 pages of information. During the testing phase, the editor, Colin McIntyre, was the only man ...

Ceefax is being laid to rest. Mort Smith, who worked on the service during its early days, remembers the pioneering teletext service. The invention of teletext back in the early 1970s was something of ...