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Scarlett.
13-12-2009, 01:31 AM
R.I.P. Teletext
1993-2009

http://www.shoutingatco.ws/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/716-teletext.jpg

p.s. - for those who didnt know, Teletext is being switched off tommorow. (Monday)
Princess
13-12-2009, 01:32 AM
NO FECKING WAY!!!!!!!!

Is it just in the UK??? Pleaseeeeeeee let it just be UK!
Patrick
13-12-2009, 01:33 AM
Bollocks!

Seriously?

*Raises Glass*
To TeleText!

:(
Beastie
13-12-2009, 01:34 AM
Aww I liked Teletext!
Scarlett.
13-12-2009, 01:34 AM
NO FECKING WAY!!!!!!!!

Is it just in the UK??? Pleaseeeeeeee let it just be UK!

It doesnt say

"On 16 July 2009, DMGT announced that due to competition from the Internet, the service would cease broadcasting most of its services on analog and digital television (with the exception of Teletext Holidays) in January 2010, with the switch off date subsequently brought forward to 14 and 15 December 2009."

from Wikipedia
Jack_
13-12-2009, 01:34 AM
Whaaaaaaaaat?
Scarlett.
13-12-2009, 01:35 AM
I used to read it while eating or if my internet was being slow :(
\PJ/
13-12-2009, 01:36 AM
Rip.
MissKittyFantastico
13-12-2009, 01:36 AM
R.I.P Teletext. :bawling:
Princess
13-12-2009, 01:38 AM
*hopes it's just UK* We need Teletext! :(
Scarlett.
13-12-2009, 01:40 AM
*hopes it's just UK* We need Teletext! :(I think it is the company as a whole closing down D:

Oh, btw, just to let youz know, Ceefax isnt Teletext
Princess
13-12-2009, 01:41 AM
What's Ceefax?? I can't remember what the Irish ones on RTE are called.
Patrick
13-12-2009, 01:42 AM
http://i47.tinypic.com/9sb5sl.jpg

*Goes all over the top like Randy Marsh from South Park*

NO!

We need TeleText!
I guess we never knew how much we loved somthing until it was gone
*Throughs glass at wall*

Its all the Internets Fault!
Stupid Microsoft!

*Grabs TV while its on TeleText*
I wont let them take it!
Jack_
13-12-2009, 01:43 AM
this is stupid! :bawling:
Scarlett.
13-12-2009, 01:43 AM
What's Ceefax?? I can't remember what the Irish ones on RTE are called.
This is Ceefax

http://crickcrack.typepad.com/.a/6a00d835326c6869e20120a5e6be41970c-800wi

:p

Oh, and Teletext's website will carry on after the TV Teletext is gone
Princess
13-12-2009, 01:46 AM
Oh BBC!
Patrick
13-12-2009, 01:49 AM
Oh, and Teletext's website will carry on after the TV Teletext is gone

Kinda defeats the whole purpose of it :joker:
Scarlett.
13-12-2009, 01:50 AM
Kinda defeats the whole purpose of it :joker:

Aye lol, since it is Teletext xD
Jords
13-12-2009, 02:11 AM
No way! D:
Shaun
13-12-2009, 02:49 AM
NOOOOO :(

i loved playing Bamboozle on that.
Jordan.
13-12-2009, 03:11 AM
OMG. It makes me want to go on it a whole lot more now! how could they do this to Teletext :(
Stacey.
13-12-2009, 09:54 AM
rip teletext :(
BigSister
13-12-2009, 10:43 AM
I know chewy im gutted
Tom
13-12-2009, 11:31 AM
I hate Ceefax , Teletext was the future. The analogue version is better than the digital one though
Tom
13-12-2009, 11:35 AM
Does anyone remember this?

http://img.hexus.net/v2/lifestyle/news/misc/teletext-bamboozle.jpg

Page 390 on Channel 4? :hugesmile: (although I'm sure it was 451 at one point?)
Fom
13-12-2009, 12:37 PM
Never used it really... my dad will be devastated haha.
James
13-12-2009, 12:42 PM
I was a fan of this page... back in the day...

http://static.guim.co.uk/Guardian/media/gallery/2009/jul/16/television-itv/digitiser450-1020.jpg

Paramount Channel also had a good teletext service where people used to phone in messages and the editor would type them up and put them on-screen. It was called Mailbox.
danda012
13-12-2009, 12:45 PM
Teletext was good back in the day.. Ceefax is still decent but doesn't have as much of the fun features teletext did.
Rob
13-12-2009, 12:46 PM
is it gone yet or going?
Stacey.
13-12-2009, 12:49 PM
is it gone yet or going?

Tomorrow i think.
Monday 14th December 2009!!!