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Quarex posted:It was apparently a British television/uhhhh??? thing that ran from 1974 to 2012. did it still look like kings quest II in 2012?
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wiki says there was some teletext poo poo in the US as well, didn't last as long though http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electra_(teletext) buncha other countries had/still have teletext services as well http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_teletext_services before all this digital tv stuff teletext was used a hell of a lot for tv subtitles as well. the good old 888 now we have the red button poo poo on some channels. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Button_(digital_television) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Red_Button cool new Metroid game fucked around with this message at 08:38 on Sep 3, 2014 |
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Sep 3, 2014 08:36
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I used to read the soap opera Park Avenue on Page 126 on ITV.It makes todays soaps look like they are not just text.May have got the page number wrong but who will ever know.
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Sep 3, 2014 13:52
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my Dad still used teletext when the internet was around what im saying is my dad is a loving idiot
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Sep 3, 2014 13:55
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Ceefax was useless boring BBC crap, Teletext was where it was at. Exhibit A: Mr T telling people to stay out of his bins.  They would periodically replace Bamboozle with Knightmare, but I can't find any screenshots of it. I'm not lying though. They did.
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Sep 3, 2014 14:00
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teletext was the poo poo, over here it also did subtitles on some tv's you could also see blue streaks in the black bars around 16/9 images, that was actually where the teletext signal was encoded into the stream
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Sep 3, 2014 14:18
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ceefax music is the loving best. i live for great ocean road
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Fatkraken posted:you could totally cheat at bamboozle, the three wrong answers for every question would all take you to the same page, while only the correct answer would take you forward, but after you pressed the fast text colour button the number at the top would change before you actually went to the page as the transmission did another "lap", and if you pressed another button fast enough it would supersede the first one. you were only cheating yourself. shameful
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funniest use of teletext was "chatrooms" on specific teletext pages where you could chat by sending your message over SMS to a certain number also the teletext pages had classified ads which you also could put up through SMS, and before cell phones became a big thing, you had some interface where you used your landline and pressed phone digits while staring at a teletext page to verify your input edit: teletext chat is still alive, go to http://www.rtl.nl/videotext/rtl4/ and press 484 ymgve fucked around with this message at 15:22 on Sep 3, 2014 |
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Sep 3, 2014 15:15
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being better than internet is not really hard feat to beat bag of rancid dog poo poo is better than internet
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Sep 3, 2014 15:52
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gnarlyhotep posted:nothing is better than quoting poo poo in GBS What if you invent a teletext GBS
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Sep 3, 2014 16:58
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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Who remembers Debbie's Diary? It would only show up after 9pm.
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Sep 3, 2014 17:44
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Park Avenue was great. When they knew it was finishing because they'd lost the franchise, they went nuts and had one of the characters killed and come back as a ghost They used to do these little profiles for the characters, so his had "AGE: DEAD" and "WEIGHT: NOTHING"
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cool thing about teletext was the adapter for the BBC computer that let you download programs over the air. like a proto-
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Megadyptes posted:wiki says there was some teletext poo poo in the US as well, didn't last as long though How in the ... Nickelodeon and MTV still have Teletext services in the UK? Where can I find teletext drawings of Lady Gaga  HAHAHAhahaha oh god I am so glad I am enough of a European synth music fan to instantly recognize Modern Talking and laugh so hard I hurt myself. StabMasterArson posted:ceefax music is the loving best. i live for great ocean road I was not ... expecting ... this.
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Sep 4, 2014 00:21
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The best was my dad attempting to watch the rugby, in Welsh, via fuzzily received S4C, with the badly decoded English teletext subtitles on 889 SBECTEL
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Sep 4, 2014 01:06
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Quarex posted:
Not expecting this either: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NycJLziPS4
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Sep 8, 2014 15:16
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wit posted:Ceefax was useless boring BBC crap, Teletext was where it was at. Holy poo poo, I used to read this religiously. It was a game orientated page. Do you remember the name?
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Sep 8, 2014 15:56
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When I was in high-school in the 80s, the trainstations had this quasi-teletext type information console that had bus timetables and tourist info and stuff But if you typed something like *100# into it, a strange email type app turned up where you could type in messages to people based on an ID number. So if you sent a message to 666 saying you wanted to buy weed, you'd get a message back the next day telling you to wait at certain place and some dude would drop off weed. It was like the 1980s version of Silk road, but with more high-school kids, and less bitcoin.
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Sep 8, 2014 15:58
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For those of you old enough, this was the service on ITV/C4 before Teletext took over in 1993. Oracle lost their franchise in 1991 after the massive deregulation in the Broadcasting Act (gently caress you Maggie) TV nerds hoooo
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Sep 8, 2014 16:00
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Exioce posted:Holy poo poo, I used to read this religiously. It was a game orientated page. Do you remember the name? Digitizer!
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Sep 8, 2014 23:02
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wit posted:Digitizer! owned bones.
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Sep 8, 2014 23:12
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write you own ceefax match report http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/29242558 good luck all 
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I can't get enough of are Dan
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I love how whenever people talk about teletext they just talk about Bamboozle and Digitizer because literally the rest of it was worthless.
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Sep 23, 2014 12:39
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I remember my dad used to check the lottery numbers on ceefax back in the day quite a bit if he missed the show
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Sep 23, 2014 13:08
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Babby Sathanas posted:I love how whenever people talk about teletext they just talk about Bamboozle and Digitizer because literally the rest of it was worthless. Hey, back in the day before you had an internet friendly machine and there was no 24 hour news, that poo poo was useful.
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Sep 23, 2014 13:25
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I would wreck Violet Berlin so bad right now.
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Sep 23, 2014 13:48
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There's a decent enough little Digitizer archive here: http://www.teletext.org.uk/index.php?cat=30_Archived-nbsp~Pages&page=41_Digitiser-nbsp~1995-1998 Mr Biffo published an AOL email address as contact once, so I added him to AIM and about 3 years later he signed in. Had a chat to him for about 40 minutes and he was a decent guy who refused to bring back my beloved Chart Cat and encouraged me to steal from my work experience placement. Also I'm pretty sure it was one of his websites where I started a thread about the Driv3r nonsense, and one of the original reviewers of that game called me a oval office. Good times. happyhippy posted:I would wreck Violet Berlin so bad right now. Took me months to realise that the big girl presenting the video games show on Bravo in the early 2000s was Violet Berlin. I'd always catch it about halfway in and never paid attention to the credits. EL BROMANCE fucked around with this message at 13:52 on Sep 23, 2014 |
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Sep 23, 2014 13:50
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I can't tell what's real and what's goatse
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/29341997 mmm yes give me some of that ceefax vibe and sweet overly critical analysis
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