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 ...

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 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 ...

Today marks the 50th anniversary of Ceefax, a teletext service available in the UK launched by the public service broadcaster BBC. While not the only teletext service available globally, it was the ...

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 ...

The British teletext service Ceefax was launched on September 23, 1974 and it continued until 2012. A BBC story said: “Before the advent of the internet and 24-hour news channels, Ceefax was at ‘the ...

Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. As the UK turned off its analogue television signals forever, the Ceefax service was also broadcast for ...

A new Ceefax news service for Kent and Sussex is to go live on Monday. The move follows the launch of nightly news programme BBC South East Today and internet sites for the areas, and "completes the ...

In-vision Ceefax was first shown in March 1980, originally in 30-minute slots and by mid-1983 it was a common filler during daytime downtime. Transmissions were originally billed on-air as Ceefax in ...

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 ...

An updated version of BBCi will launch on digital satellite in June, with similar updates being rolled out across digital terrestrial and digital cable platforms by the summer of 2004. Heralded as ...

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 ...