The BBC’s Ceefax text service closed down yesterday after 38 years on the air. The world’s first teletext information service, Ceefax began broadcasting in 1974 and provided everyone from insomniacs ...

Ceefax (a play on “see facts”), the world’s first teletext service, went live on 23 September 1974, with 30 pages of information. During the testing phase, the editor, Colin McIntyre, was the only man ...

BBC Ceefax, the world's first teletext service, has completed its final broadcast after 38 years on air. Before Olympic champion Dame Mary Peters turned off the last of the UK's analogue TV signals in ...

Before the emergence of Twitter and 24-hour online news, the main way of finding out what was happening in the world came via newspapers and the radio. But with the launch of the BBC's Ceefax – the ...

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 ...

Ceefax went live fifty years ago. BBC journalist and former Ceefax sports editor Ian Westbrook recalls the years when teletext ruled the airwaves. Imagine a world where you could not call up the ...

Ceefax, the world's first teletext service, is gradually being switched off around the country as the digital switchover takes hold. To mark its 35th birthday, Ceefax journalist Ian Westbrook has ...

Long before the days of the internet and email the only way you could get information quickly was via Ceefax. It used part of the analogue TV signal to transmit its pixellated stories directly to your ...

Wednesday 24 October 2012 was a sad day. No, we're not teary Gooners wiping away tears after defeat to Schalke, or moody Mancunians upset about City's tonking at Ajax. Nope, Wednesday 24 October 2012 ...

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, ...