Saturday, 2 October 2021

The history of teletext in 18 minutes

Teletext was—is— a searchable text- and graphics-based information service cunningly broadcast over the television airwaves and accessible by televisions with appropriate decoders. Largely blown away by the world wide web and modern digital TV sets lacking the analog protocol, teletext is now mostly a locus of nostalgia and aesthetic irony in other media. — Read the rest