Olympic champion Mary Peters (pentathlon 1972) brought the curtain down on the service when she turned off the last analogue TV signal in Northern Ireland at 11.30pm local time (9.30am Wednesday AEDT) ...

The world's first teletext service is to be celebrated at a special exhibition marking its 50th anniversary. Today people take interactive television services and news on demand for granted, but their ...

CEEFAX, the world’s first teletext service, went off the air at 11.30pm last night after 38 years on the BBC. Teletext was invented by BBC engineers who were attempting to find a way to broadcast ...

Ofcom has fined Teletext Limited £225,000 after its public teletext service licence was revoked. The licence was revoked in January after Teletext had stopped its news and information service on ...

Who doesn't like a bit of nostalgia? We remember Ceefax, the teletext service that gave us news and a whole lot more at our fingertips. Read: Ceefax service closes down after 38 years on BBC Read: ...

After 38 years the BBC is retiring Ceefax, ending the first era of digital content delivery to the home. Launched in 1974, Ceefax was the world's first teletext service—a proto-Internet delivering ...

Kids these days are missing out. Oh yes, they have the world at their fingertips thanks to 'the internet' (pfft) but they just won't ever know the joy of sitting cross-legged in front of your tea, ...

The site, Dane says, essentially runs itself now. “It takes very little work to maintain these days. Put simply, the code reads websites like the BBC News, Met Office etc to get the text, and fixes it ...

Ceefax - a play on the words "see facts" - was launched by the BBC on 1 November 1974 with a team of eight: four sub-editors (journalists) and four researchers The world's first teletext service is to ...

A very sad day it will be too. I have very fond memories of Ceefax when I was a child. I was born in 1988 and Ceefax had high use in my household in the 1990s. I will always remember sitting there in ...