Is teletex the future?

is teletex the future?

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Jesus Christ it's been a long time since I've seen that

Used to use it to check TV listings at night when I was a youngin

Sadly it's the past.

Remembering Teletex makes me feel old.

I miss teletext

I used it to look at pixelated titties when I was a kid and had no broadband

My grandma uses teletext on her iPad (in app form) as her newssource...

waterfordwhispersnews.com/2016/09/01/pensioners-storm-offices-of-rte-demanding-the-return-of-teletext/

"“My TV keeps asking me do I want to internet things, it scares me, I just want the weather and teletext was good for that,” a disorientated pensioner yelled at no one in particular while storming the reception desk in RTÉ."

Bring back teletext. Simple technology is the best.
Plus, the way it was originally implemented was ingenious.

>“You can’t make me Netflix if I don’t want to, I want teletext, if you give me that then I’ll go,” shared another pensioner, who had strapped explosives to her waist in a bid to show how serious she was about being able to access the Only Kidding section of RTÉ’s aertel service.

Needs more javascript

what was ingenious in its original implementation?

don't fix what ain't broke

teletext was just fine for getting basic real time information like weather, tv listings, news, world time, etc, etc
cost nothing to access, and required no additional hardware if your tv supported it (which everything did), just hit the teletext button on a capable channel and you're good to go

Be cool if you could add your own rss feeds to teletext.

I remember reading the dating section as a kid and getting a good old laugh. Also quiz was comfy as fuck

teletext is read-only

ard-text.de/

>This woman worked on teletext for state tv
>Before cellphones became a thing
>She used page 848 to send secret messages to home
>like "Can you come get me at the station at 6:30"
>or "Can you buy some bread"
>normal people going to page 848 only got a black screen
>you needed to press the question mark button to see the message

Genius.

That is cool

or she could have called home

Fucking awesome

>When the squad bored af

I remember this being called Intertext

Why did teletext succed on Europe but failed on USA?

Not enough flashy images for Americans to satisfy their short attention span.

It used the interval between frames shown by TV to encode information. The CRT screens needed a "blank" period between each frame to refresh the screen. Effectively this was "dead space" or unused bandwidth in the broadcast signal.

But just because it couldn't be used to transmit video, didn't mean it couldn't be used to send other information - text, subtitles, etc. Effectively both teletext and subtitles were squeezed into a space in the broadcast bandwidth that was only there by accident.

With a little additional hardware to decode the signal into text, you could display pages of information using part of the signal that couldn't be used for anything else anyway.

...

That's cool to know, although absolutely useless. Thanks for sharing

>tfw living in Croatia
>tfw everyone uses teletext

Same in Austria desu

yeah it's fine for checking things like the program schedule

Ooft! Right in the memories

>haven't used teletext for years
>find the function and hit 666
>still the same old teletext porn

I remember when my family got a new tv, which came with a spoiler button for for teletext. There would be quizzes and shit and the answers would be hidden until you hit the spoiler button.

Shit was so cash.

teletext was the best

>reliable as fuck
>not information overload
>free as in almost every kind of freedom
>everyone had it
>cheap to transmit (on analogue it fit into spare bandwidth, on digital television it was like a 5kb/s signal)

i'd argue that it should return, but in the form of MHEG-5
i think the bbc in the uk uses something like it for 'red channel' services, but it isn't as widespread

good ol' borderline-kind-of-not-really-nsfw-because-kids-wouldn't-pick-up-on-it stuff

n o s t a l g i a

youtube.com/watch?v=Ks9Tvbd7PqY

nothing made me more glad australia was in the 'european' technological region than teletext
that and we had the right colours on the tv

I remember most of the teletext disappearing on January 1st of 2000. I don't think it was a coincidence.

don't you mean 1st of january 19100?

Dude, we may be a shithole, but cmon, even we have maxtv, evotv and such. Maybe somewhere in Posavina and such, but cmon... Hell, I don't even use TV at all. Where do you live? I'm seriously curious where this is still being used.

That being said, fuck does that make me feel old.

I miss times when Internet was available in plain text, not this modern CSS+JS multimegabyte mess.

Fucking flashbacks. Good times with teletext jesus

this is the future:
vimeo.com/166807261

So that's the hell I've been hearing about so much.

yep, that's it. I mean, why would you expect VR and shit without ads, connectivity problems and hackers?

Yesssssss. Used to love this.

still a better website than facebook

LMAO!

Finland here. Teletext is comfy as fuck, I hope it never goes away. In the early 90's it was the Internet before there was Internet. I still sync my Casio to this day with the teletext clock.

My mum still uses it to check the Horses each day.