Have you ever heard of Teletext? It’s this amazing system where you can get text information using your TV’s antenna and a special decoder.


The system is still being used across the globe, but it never caught on in the United States, although a form of it was used by a Chicago and L.A. TV station, and Superstation WTBS.


This service is so amazing. Sending all of these text pages via the airwaves.


Right now we’re looking at the BBC’s Ceefax. So here’s how it works. You have a main page, and then on that main page you can choose between various sections, like news headlines, sports or weather. You select what section you want to view by typing in the number.


But everything isn’t just text. I love the blocky, old school graphics that you can bring up on things like weather maps.


Another awesome thing is that you can do trivia on the system.


Teletext started being tested back in 1973. And it had a long run in English-speaking countries. CNN used it up until 2006. And the BBC until 2012.


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