#ceefax — Public Fediverse posts

Today is a historic day, as Count Binface takes on Fascist Nigelface, in a hopeless fight for the future of British democracy.

#clacton #ukpol #binface #ceefax

Fixed Digitiser's "Roddy Day"

https://rodd.ie/day

#RoddieDay #Digitiser #Teletext #Ceefax

@CountBinface is already delivering on his #ClactonByelection pledges: #Ceefax restored.

Read the #Binface4Clacton manifesto, the #UKPol news of the campaign, and more, in bright teletext multi-page glory: https://ceefax.cloud/

#MakeYourVoteCount #BinDayIsComing #CountBinface

A Look Inside a 1997 BBC Ceefax Generator

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/07/11/a-look-inside-a-1997-bbc-ceefax-generator/

Apart from the humiliation of Farage, I'm also looking forward to the return of Ceefax!

#voteBinface #ceefax

Some proper tech geekery here. This is what goes into running the Pages From Ceefax feed on YouTube. Wow! I salute you sir. #pagesfromceefax #ceefax #teletext https://youtu.be/POzfzp-KV4E?si=fHatyU_pG6-yxTKv

What if teletext had never gone away? I kept the chunky coloured pages and page numbers, and wired the back of it to live UK feeds, rewritten every 90 minutes by an AI.

A personal project, firmly non-commercial: it only borrows the headlines and hands them back, with thanks to the feeds behind it. I am not claiming anything new, there are other recreations out there far more capable than mine.

https://markhaworth.uk/investigations/ai-teletext

#Teletext #Ceefax #RetroComputing #RetroTech #AI

As I linked to that Ceefax simulation page i though i'd regress and look at the current top 40 singles chart (when do i last do *that*?). Two oldies by Fleetwood Mac (my personal antichrist) and three classics from Michael Jackson. What the? #UK #music #Ceefax #singles #Top40 #WTF https://nmsceefax.co.uk/#id=WyJubXMtY2VlZmF4IiwiaW50ZXJuYWwubmF0aGFubWVkaWFzZXJ2aWNlcy5jby51ayIsIi93ZWJzb2NrZXRzL2NlZWZheCJd:page=528

On this day (Ceefax version) #ceefax
https://nmsceefax.co.uk/#id=WyJubXMtY2VlZmF4IiwiaW50ZXJuYWwubmF0aGFubWVkaWFzZXJ2aWNlcy5jby51ayIsIi93ZWJzb2NrZXRzL2NlZWZheCJd:page=143

I've just watched this fascinating excerpt from a 1983 episode of BBC's Micro Live, in which they cover the broadcasting of computer software by radio and television!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtTVczVmV8w

A few things stood out to me:

• 2m35s: I always wondered what these dots were above the video. That I remember seeing them all the time (before the switchover to fully digital TV signals in around 2010) implies that the picture must never have been properly adjusted on the television sets I used!
• 5m17s: This is very cool! Being able to parse real live data from Ceefax must have seemed very exotic before domestic connections to the Internet became generally available.
• 6m29s: I don't agree with the interviewee Lawson Brown here at all! There's no reason you couldn't have error checking of a digital radio broadcast. I'm sure he knew that, but it's still a weak argument IMHO.
• 7m48s: The interviewer Ian McNaught-Davis touches upon some really interesting questions about the quality of free software. The topic doesn't really get fleshed out in this video, but it's fascinating to think that this episode aired literally five days before the GNU project was announced, which, after a bit of time, would essentially demonstrate the answer to those questions!

#retrocomputing #bbcmicro #teletext #ceefax

What's also interesting after a brief discussion is that not everyone used subtitles in the same way that is almost ubiquitous now. And that whilst me and other #Ceefax / #Teletext fans of my generation used it as an early internet, your main source for news, that was not a given.

@mrgawrjuhs 😀
Only on #Ceefax
#TOTP

Интернет нашего детства. История и технология телетекста

- Мы телек купили! - Круто! Телетекст есть? Если диалог выше для вас имеет смысл, значит вы, как и я, застали технологии девяностых. Многие из этих технологий были весьма причудливы. Но даже среди них телетекст – это нечто особенное. Если ваш телевизор его поддерживал, то для вас открывался удивительный мир текстовой информации, которую вы могли (как казалось) выбирать сами. Свежий прогноз погоды, программа передач, результаты матчей и, конечно же, сказки. Почти Интернет в телевизоре! Но как это работало, почему выбор контента был иллюзорным, и кто вообще додумался снабдить ТВ-каналы таким удивительным расширением? Давайте разбираться!

https://habr.com/ru/companies/beget/articles/1009308/

#телевизор #телевидение #ТВ #телетекст #ceefax #oracle #приставка #вещание #история_технологий #teletext

Here's the link to the in-vision Pages From Ceefax I captured from videotape:
https://youtu.be/VKlRJ18tGNQ

Remember, Pages From Ceefax is still a thing in 2026 thanks to Nathan Dane:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8OUAiWH_jc

#PagesFromCeefax #Ceefax #Teletext #VHS #History #Retro #Nostalgia

Checked in on the latest tape going through the teletext recovery setup, and discovered I was capturing teletext from the VBI while teletext was also in-vision on Pages From Ceefax. Very meta.

(Yes, I'll rewind when it's done and capture that, too, before you ask.)

#VCR #Ceefax #Teletext

Now on BBC2, a selection of biscuits from Sainsbury’s.

#Ceefax

I'm not much of a big fan of Xmas but as we draw closer I do like to tune in to Pages From Ceefax and listen to the Chrimbo chewns on there. Big up the dude keeping this thing alive... #Ceefax #PagesFromCeefax #Christmas2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8OUAiWH_jc

It's Friday afternoon, the weather is lousy, you're still working… must be time for #Ceefax music. 👌

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc1mKU4L01E

вечер | 3rd place #teletext at Flashparty 2025

#art #teletextart #pixelart #demoscene #textmode #textmodeart #ascii #asciiart #digitalart #computerart #8bitart #8bit #1bitart #1bit #bbs #ceefax #tekstitv #coffee #tea #evening #cozy

"Ceefax was the world's first teletext service, going live on 23 September 1974. In a pre-internet world, the revolutionary system allowed people to check the latest BBC news and sport updates at the touch of a few buttons."

https://www.bbc.com/articles/cvg360rr91zo

#OTD #OnThisDay #history #technology #teletext #ceefax

If you get this joke, then you’re exceptionally geeky about at least two different things…

#SteelyDan #Prestel #Ceefax #Geekery