William's desk surface hasn't changed in years, but almost everything on it has recently. From a new Mac Studio to a totally ...

On 28 February 1983, BBC1 started to air a selection of Ceefax pages every weekday morning at 6.00am called Ceefax AM which would lead into the start of Breakfast Time at 6.30am. It is first mentioned ...

Have you ever wanted to go back in time to the 1990s and see what it was like to live before the invention of the internet? Well, now you can because 38 years after the world’s first teletext service ...

Ceefax was the BBC’s text-based TV news service which taught a generation of journalists to write stories in chunks of four paragraphs which made sense whatever scrolling page of an article the reader ...

18:18, Mon, Sep 23, 2024 Updated: 18:18, Mon, Sep 23, 2024 It began as the solution to two very different problems: how to put out pages of financial information during the night when the BBC was off ...

TV subtitles may be primarily for deaf people or those who are hard of hearing, but research has revealed they are used by six million people who have no hearing impairment. Why? Perhaps we should ...

AS the 10th anniversary of its final day falls this weekend, fans of Ceefax are becoming nostalgic for simpler times when, in a pre-internet, pre-rolling news existence, the world’s first teletext ...

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 ...

An Enniskillen man who began recreating the BBC’s now defunct Ceefax service at the age of 15 has told how his passion project was inspired by an interest in old technologies. Nathan Dane (20), who ...

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 ...