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 ...

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, ...

Ceefax - a play on the words "see facts" - was launched by the BBC on 1 November 1974 with a team of eight: four sub-editors (journalists) and four researchers The world's first teletext service is to ...

A very sad day it will be too. I have very fond memories of Ceefax when I was a child. I was born in 1988 and Ceefax had high use in my household in the 1990s. I will always remember sitting there in ...

As analogue TV slides from memory, there’s a facet of it that’s fondly remembered by a band of enthusiasts. Teletext was an electronic viewdata information service digitally encoded in the frame ...

Ceefax will take its final bow tonight as the beloved text service succumbs to the final stage of the UK's switch to digital television broadcasts. The world's first teletext service will finally end ...

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 ...

Ceefax, the world's first teletext service, is gradually being switched off around the country as the digital switchover takes hold. To mark its 35th birthday, Ceefax journalist Ian Westbrook has ...

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 ...

After 38 years the BBC is retiring Ceefax, ending the first era of digital content delivery to the home. Launched in 1974, Ceefax was the world's first teletext service—a proto-Internet delivering ...