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Games reviews on 4tel, channel 4’s version. Holiday booking on another version. It used to be they stopped broadcasting during the afternoon, replacing it wit
by zeristor 3y ago
Games reviews on 4tel, channel 4’s version.
Holiday booking on another version.
It used to be they stopped broadcasting during the afternoon, replacing it with “Pages from Ceefax” along with some bespoke muzak, the tune with the barking dogs made me smile.
Angela Ripon explaining from 1975:
https://youtu.be/ICoj8mxG0ww https://youtu.be/ICoj8mxG0ww
“BBC2 Pages From Ceefax - Mon 26 Aug 1996 - Slide Rule”
https://youtu.be/j9Aiiekfqiw https://youtu.be/j9Aiiekfqiw
- robin_reala 3y agoThe games section was Digitiser[1] and was remarkably popular: basically everyone I knew in the 90s that was vaguely into games read it. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digitiser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digitiser
- zeristor 3y agoI guess even then I was a bit too old. Was this archived? Or has it passed like tears in the rain? Looks like there’s some of it from the Wikipedia link: https://www.teletext.org.uk/index.php?cat=30_Archived-nbsp~Pages&page=41_Digitiser-nbsp~1995-1998&zoom=598 https://www.teletext.org.uk/index.php?cat=30_Archived-nbsp~P...