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Now that's what I call retrocomputing! Too bad the date on the teletext pages doesn't include the year... when was the premiere of season (pardon me, series) 3

by rob74 4y ago

Now that's what I call retrocomputing! Too bad the date on the teletext pages doesn't include the year... when was the premiere of season (pardon me, series) 3 of Babylon 5 again? Ah, 1996 (thanks Wikipedia!). To think teletext is still around today, a fossilized technology using a standard that has been almost unchanged for 40 years! Although nowadays I mostly read it using a smartphone app - the bite-size pages are perfect for a quick and (almost) ad-free news update.

iso1631 4y ago
The episode they refer to "Shadow Dancing" was broadcast in the UK on 15th Sep (from teletext) And usenet confirms https://groups.google.com/g/uk.media.tv.sf.babylon5/c/_6WzOCiRSE8/m/rPdypUzHn_MJ https://groups.google.com/g/uk.media.tv.sf.babylon5/c/_6WzOC... https://groups.google.com/g/uk.media.tv.sf.babylon5/c/KxNjFfe_Rn4/m/2-ng-AEvun8J https://groups.google.com/g/uk.media.tv.sf.babylon5/c/KxNjFf... That it was 1996 was the year https://babylon5.fandom.com/wiki/Shadow_Dancing https://babylon5.fandom.com/wiki/Shadow_Dancing Says it was first broadcast in the US on 21st October 1996 Was B5 really broadcast in the UK ahead of the US?! Star Trek in that era was months to years behind -- evidence in November 1997 https://groups.google.com/g/uk.media.tv.sf.startrek/c/apVB4RNP95w/m/l9h91XYD_60J https://groups.google.com/g/uk.media.tv.sf.startrek/c/apVB4R... BBC (free to air) were broadcasting episodes first shown in the US in June 1996, and Sky (Pay TV) were on October 1996.
qsort 4y ago
As someone who was a toddler when those "screenshots" were live, teletext is one of my favorite sources of information. Mostly because very few people read it, therefore the news are straight to the point with comparatively low political bullshit. I read it with a python script I wrote myself that parses images into ANSI sequences and outputs them to a terminal. If I manage to put the code in a presentable state it could be a cool "show HN".
- jbaber 4y ago
  Please do this.

by rob74 4y ago

iso1631 4y ago

The episode they refer to "Shadow Dancing" was broadcast in the UK on 15th Sep (from teletext) And usenet confirms https://groups.google.com/g/uk.media.tv.sf.babylon5/c/_6WzOCiRSE8/m/rPdypUzHn_MJ https://groups.google.com/g/uk.media.tv.sf.babylon5/c/_6WzOC... https://groups.google.com/g/uk.media.tv.sf.babylon5/c/KxNjFfe_Rn4/m/2-ng-AEvun8J https://groups.google.com/g/uk.media.tv.sf.babylon5/c/KxNjFf... That it was 1996 was the year https://babylon5.fandom.com/wiki/Shadow_Dancing https://babylon5.fandom.com/wiki/Shadow_Dancing Says it was first broadcast in the US on 21st October 1996 Was B5 really broadcast in the UK ahead of the US?! Star Trek in that era was months to years behind -- evidence in November 1997 https://groups.google.com/g/uk.media.tv.sf.startrek/c/apVB4RNP95w/m/l9h91XYD_60J https://groups.google.com/g/uk.media.tv.sf.startrek/c/apVB4R... BBC (free to air) were broadcasting episodes first shown in the US in June 1996, and Sky (Pay TV) were on October 1996.

qsort 4y ago

As someone who was a toddler when those "screenshots" were live, teletext is one of my favorite sources of information. Mostly because very few people read it, therefore the news are straight to the point with comparatively low political bullshit. I read it with a python script I wrote myself that parses images into ANSI sequences and outputs them to a terminal. If I manage to put the code in a presentable state it could be a cool "show HN".

jbaber 4y ago
Please do this.