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, ...

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 ...

Many European broadcasters currently use a Teletext-based format to produce subtitles (sometimes known as closed captions) for live TV programmes. Teletext has all of the limitations you would expect ...

Before the rise of 24-hour networks and readily accessible internet access, bored television viewers in the UK seeking entertainment at 3AM would have to make do with Ceefax. The service was ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Just about every television in Europe has a “teletext” button. Push the button on your television remote and you’re ...

This article was taken from the July 2012 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by ...

Remember Teletext? The information retrieval service developed in the 1970s to broadcast pages of text and odd-looking geometric shapes that conveyed news, weather and TV schedules? Well, it has its ...