Text on Text

Hello. I created this blog a while ago but didn't really know what to do with it. After all theres no point me talking about somehting I know much less about than sevral hundred other people who has blogs on the subject. A moment of inspiration hit me earlier today however and I have know decided to report on what will probably be last days of Teletext. And by that I mean all anolouge text services in Britain. Well, hopefully there will be a few forign oddesys in time.

When I said a brief history though I also mean of teletext. I wasn't born when Ceefax first aired in 1973 so it's based on second hand information which there isn't alot of. It was joint research from ITV and the BBC which created teletext. BBC used Ceefax( phoniticlly See Facts) while ITV went with Oracle which seems to have been replaced by Teletext around the early ninties. Recently teletext has disapeered from nearly all Digital chanels and even the anolouge service is looking a bit neglected. It will definitly leave us when the much mooted anolouge swich off happens. Mind you, that was originally in 2006 and is now rumored for 2012. It will most likly go before then though as digital text imporves. (Still not near Ceefax but maybe I'm baised) That was very condensed and if you want more go to http://teletext.mb21.co.uk/. I took most of information from it anyway. The evening with Ceefax is amusing if immensly weird.

So that is all. I hope everyone can now appericate those clunky, ridiclously dated characters on your televison much more now.