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 ...

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, ...

The BBC’s Ceefax service, the world’s first teletext service, will finally be laid to rest this evening when the UK’s analogue TV signal is switched off for the last time. The UK is set to complete ...

BBC Ceefax is set for its final bow tonight as the TV text service ends after nearly four decades to make way for the UK's digital switchover. The much-loved service will be taken off air this evening ...

Long before the days of the internet and email the only way you could get information quickly was via Ceefax. It used part of the analogue TV signal to transmit its pixellated stories directly to your ...

Ceefax was the world's first teletext service, going live on 23 September 1974. In a pre-internet world, the revolutionary system allowed people to check the latest BBC news and sport updates at the ...

The teletext service Ceefax will be switched off in the London area today (April 18). The long-running analogue TV information service will be turned off after nearly 40 years as part of the ongoing ...

As analogue TV slides from memory, there’s a facet of it that’s fondly remembered by a band of enthusiasts. Teletext was an electronic viewdata information service digitally encoded in the frame ...

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 ...