While teletext found its way to North America and around the world, it was in Europe that its popularity boomed, particularly in the UK. “There was a similar thrill in waiting for cricket scores to update: 'Oh no, it hasn’t changed for a while now, maybe England have lost a wicket!' And invariably they’d lost two.”Īs teletext grew, it wasn’t just the news lines and football scores that built its proto-internet appeal. “I remember the excitement of having a teletext television in my bedroom because I could keep up with football scores in real time while waiting for commentary updates on local radio,” says Teletext artist Dan Farrimond. Hopefully with a new scorer appearing under their name. Just a score, a time and the agonising wait for your team’s page to roll back around. With its simple blue and white text on a black screen, it had none of the shrill chaos of Jeff Stelling and the gang, nor the immediate right to reply on social media. The third in our series looks at Teletext, the service where you could find the news, book holidays and read comic books.īefore there was Sky Sports, before Twitter and illicit streams on the internet, the thrill of following the football on a Saturday afternoon was brought by the endlessly rotating screen of Ceefax. In our new series, we'll take a look at the retro tech that shaped a generation. In an age before Facebook, when the Walkman was king and smartphone batteries lasted a week, anything seemed possible.
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