The end of Ceefax.

[colonel c]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20032882

To be honest Ceefax is well past it's sell by date. yet somehow It's sad to see it go.

[AJS-]

I assumed it had gone in about 1998.

[jmorgan]

I used to use it a lot until analogue was switched off in my area. News weather and travel.

[ZOLLAR]

AJS- said:

I assumed it had gone in about 1998.

Indeed, didn't think it was still going?
Only piece of slightly relevant information I ever got from it was Diana's death.

[P-Jay]

I think I booked a £99 package Holiday to some Spanish Costa as a teenager via this, or more than likely the ITV version - I guess that's been gone for a while.

Found memories of waiting for the page to change get the details and grab the number quickly before it changed again.

[Twincam16]

P-Jay said:

I think I booked a £99 package Holiday to some Spanish Costa as a teenager via this, or more than likely the ITV version - I guess that's been gone for a while.

Found memories of waiting for the page to change get the details and grab the number quickly before it changed again.

[Eric Mc]

P-Jay said:

I think I booked a £99 package Holiday to some Spanish Costa as a teenager via this, or more than likely the ITV version - I guess that's been gone for a while.

Found memories of waiting for the page to change get the details and grab the number quickly before it changed again.

You Paged the Oracle

[RumbleOfThunder]

Of course, if you were lucky enough to have a really good telly, you could "hold" the desired page if you pressed it at the right time. It didn't wait though, after unholding it would skip about 5 pages forward.

[bebee]

I didn't know it started in 74, I would have said 1984/5 much older than I thought.
I remember being wowed the first time I could view it with my 14" portable tube TV.
I can't see it being missed though.

[bebee]

Twincam16 said:

P-Jay said:

I think I booked a £99 package Holiday to some Spanish Costa as a teenager via this, or more than likely the ITV version - I guess that's been gone for a while.

Found memories of waiting for the page to change get the details and grab the number quickly before it changed again.

Booked it, packed it and fked off.....................

[baz1985]

I miss it. I grew up reading the news, readers' letters, football stuff etc on it.

[Negative Creep]

Anyone else used to read Digitiser?

[Twincam16]

I remember when it was used as an information source when the broadband bill looked steep in my student house.

It was nicknamed 'the skinternet'.

[TheTurbonator]

bebee said:

Twincam16 said:

P-Jay said:

I think I booked a £99 package Holiday to some Spanish Costa as a teenager via this, or more than likely the ITV version - I guess that's been gone for a while.

Found memories of waiting for the page to change get the details and grab the number quickly before it changed again.

Booked it, packed it and fked off.....................

The T'internet has replaced Ceefax for package holidays now.

I used to use Ceefax all the time for TV listings. Still remember the codes: 601-605 for BBC with 606 being a 'now and next' for all channels, 111-115 for ITV and CH4.

[Shaw Tarse]

[prand]

TheTurbonator said:

The T'internet has replaced Ceefax for package holidays now.

I used to use Ceefax all the time for TV listings. Still remember the codes: 601-605 for BBC with 606 being a 'now and next' for all channels, 111-115 for ITV and CH4.

I remember "watching" cricket and seeing the runs and wickets tick over in the middle of the night when England were playing in Australia. How different is it with streaming 24hr news & sport through the web nowadays? Although seeing Arsenal go 1 up in the last minute, then wait for Match of the Day to see the goals used to be something quite special.

Used to use the travel reports too - we'd time our drive to the south coast at weekends on when the M25 stopped flasing red.

2 weeks all inclusive to Acupulco for £350 was a pretty stonking deal.

Sad to see it go, as it was a really useful thing in its day, and paved the way to the internet. Incomparable to what we have now though.

[Twincam16]

TheTurbonator said:

The T'internet has replaced Ceefax for package holidays now.

I used to use Ceefax all the time for TV listings. Still remember the codes: 601-605 for BBC with 606 being a 'now and next' for all channels, 111-115 for ITV and CH4.

Ah yes - and 360 for motorsports news (quite liked that, almost like a reference to a 360-degree donut).

[Hoofy]

When I saw the thread title, I thought, "Uhoh, someone from Ceefax has been phone hacking celebrities for photos of naked children with some elaborate phone call expenses scam."

[completetangent]

In the name of progress, you can now get digital text.

It's a huge leap forward, with proportionately spaced typeface and everything. And yet... what used to be a 1-page teletext story is now split over three annoyingly small columnar sidebars. You must page through them. Of course, mouthbreathers get to keep one eye on the PiP soap opera or reality TV show.

Gah!

Edited by completetangent on Tuesday 23 October 18:14

[italianjob1275]

Did any one used to do the Bamboozle quiz on channel 4 ceefax?

That was awesome.

Yes 360 for motorsport. Even covered local club events