The BBC’s Ceefax text service closed down yesterday after 38 years on the air. The world’s first teletext information service, Ceefax began broadcasting in 1974 and provided everyone from insomniacs ...
Long before we had internet newsfeeds or Twitter, Ceefax delivered up-to-the-minute news right to your television screen. Launched by the BBC in 1974, Ceefax was the world’s first teletext service, ...
You may have missed it, but a little bit of television history came to an end this weekend as the BBC essentially pulled the plus on its Ceefax transmissions, bringing to an end the world’s first ...