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Ceefax Turns 30

Posted by michael on from the over-the-hill dept.

VirtualUK writes "Ceefax, the text information service from the BBC turns 30 today (just 3 days after myself)!! For those not lucky enough to have seen what Ceefax is about, it is text information pages sent in out-of-band data space of TV transmissions in Great Britain. What started off as a subtitling project evolved into a service still used by over 20 million viewers a week even in the face of the Internet revolution. It just goes to show that for a lot of people, the best source of sport results, last minute holiday bargains and horoscopes is still just a click away on their TV remote."

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  1. firstage post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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    1. Re:firstage post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      YES MY FIRST FIRST POST :D

  2. first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first post

  3. 30 years old . . . by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I hope to stop reading and posting to slashdot when I'm 29.

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  7. Ceefax? by Damek · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I prefer Ceephax.