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Teletext appreciation thread! I think teletext is a great technology, comparable with Gemini in some ways, and it's nice that it's still around in most of europe! What i like about it: * privacy-respecting: no data is sent as you browse it * light-weight: it's just text! * you can receive it in remote locations
=> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_teletext_services List of Teletext services
Highly centralised though.
Sometimes that's fine, for example for providing information services from the government
is this at all like TTY phones?
The Digitiser was great!
oh god, still absolutely love the super-saturated, super-low-rez pictures that you used to see around there! it's a kind of magic you just can't quite replicate. one of the stations over here still lets you browse it online, but it's not quite the same when it's not on a tube TV with the sounds of whatever TV programme's on at the time playing in the background :(
I sometimes tried to browse unallocated pages just to see the random colors on the screen! Ads on there were/are quite clever too