@illarterate
📺 teletextfreak. Fanatique télématique. 📧 HELLO (at) TELETEXTART (dot) CO (dot) UK (Not taking on paid projects for now.) 🌐 teletextart.co.uk 🌐 danfarrimond.co.uk 💁 Header photo: @megawayned.bsky.social 🖼️ Profile pic: @mrbiffo.bsky.social
Internet virus as reported via BBC Ceefax Teletext in 1989
1989: News of an internet virus reported by BBC Ceefax teletext captured and uploaded to @ttxarchaeologist.bsky.social via www.teletextarchive.com/Pages/Detail...
A photo of an old analogue CRT television, showing a 1990s BBC 2 ident. Alongside are 4 TV channel generators, one for each of BBC 1, BBC 2, ITV Central, and Channel 4.
We may have the only analogue CRT television still receiving four channels 😅
Each channel has Teletext of course...
BBC 1 ➡️ Ceefax East Midlands
BBC 2 ➡️ Ceefax World Service
Central ➡️ Spark
C4 ➡️ Chunkytext
An ascii image of what looks like a terrified man
Doomscrolling
Selfie:SOTAL (2015) #pixelart #teletext #videotext #railslave
CALL FOR ENTRIES – Yle45, Yle Teletext’s 45th Anniversary (October 2026) 🇫🇮 #teletextart
#callforentries #teletext #artistonbluesky #artistsonbluesky #pixelart #1bit #textmode #retrogaming #artist #demoscene #ceefax #videotext #tekstitv #tvtext
teletextart.co.uk/call-for-ent...
🟩 TELETEXT | On This Day 1990 | ORACLE asks for the public's help to save its ITV and C4 service from closure. Commercial teletext wasn't catered for in the new Broadcasting Bill.
Some disparaging remarks about Ceefax!
Recovery: Tomsonic41 @ teletextarchive.com
Teletext displayed 24 rows of 40 characters to show news, weather, subtitles, and sports results and more.
A TV in front of a window with exposed brick around it. On the tv is an old school teletext display, showing beer checkins through Untappd
I'm feeling incredibly pigeonholed here.
Teletext feed of Untappd checkins and tap list.
They know their audience...
Happy St David's Day!
#teletext #daffodil #pixelart #1bit #flowers #ceefax #videotext #teletexto #teledata
They had it for a bit, locally, but it never got national backing. I blame Max Headroom
Press Green?
Last few hours and it's gone! Get it while it's lukewarm!
Pixel art showing an octopus underwater
🐙 #pixelart #1bit
This is awesome! Teletext art history right here.
First Excursions in #Teletext in Norway. Norjalaisen taiteilija/tutkija Arild Bomanin Media Culture -projekti vuodelta 1979.
yle.fi/aihe/tekstit...
There's two!
Teletext/ceefax may have done something useful if you were an adult but as a kid it was profoundly useless.
I get my news from a reliable source
teletext page 744 on DR is a test page in Swedish that displays one of each character, a simple graphic, a “clock cracker” made out of two lines with alternating blocks and ü characters, samples of coloured text, and blinking and double-height text
the second test page has “the quick brown fox jumps over lazy dogs” repeated across the entire screen, with a diagonal line of “01” cutting through it
the third test page is a full-screen “clock cracker” with alternating columns of solid block characters and ü characters
the fourth subpage is a “konvergenstest” showing a grid of meshed horizontal and vertical lines
No trip to mainland Europe is complete without taking a look at Teletext. I found this set of test pages on DR1
(Subpages 5-7 were just a blank page with red, green and blue backgrounds respectively)
Looking forward to the xenograd block party!
#xenoxxx announces the twinning of Wigan and Xenograd for the furthering of cultural synergy and resource optimization. #teletext
Vendors taking part in the Wigan-Xenograd civic twinning artisan grade ration distribution. Access strictly by "Pay-by-Palm" hand scanning #teletext
At last, the Digi fellas in teletext form. Which one's @mrbiffo.bsky.social?
Top 10 Ceefax chart as seen for w/c 20 February 1994
Fancy seeing the top 10 charts as seen on Ceefax from #OnThisDate in 1994.
It saw Mariah Carey continue in the number 1 slot with Without You and D:Ream was saying Things Can Only Get Better at 2.
#90s
(Capture : @ttxarchaeologist.bsky.social)
Good news for #xenoxxx citizens who may have had difficulties shopping these last few weeks. A new payment method is available. #teletext
This is an advertisement for a Toshiba television that features an infrared remote control hand unit that is housed in a concealed drawer. The television features world-famous picture quality and high-performance sound from twin speakers, which is as good as stereo. A manual version of the television without remote control is available. Nothing remotely approaches it. You can see this is no ordinary television. The infra-red remote control hand unit is cunningly housed in a concealed drawer-a little device we call 'soft-eject'. Touch it and out it glides straight into your hand. This special feature is available on both remote control and teletext models. So is our world-famous picture quality and high performance sound from twin speakers-almost as good as stereo! And if it's real value-for-money you're after, but you don't particularly want remote control, there's our manual version at around £300. And this includes our usual 2-year warranty. Whichever model you choose from our 22" range, your local Toshiba dealer will be happy to give you a full demonstration. Get switched on today. For further details contact: Toshiba (UK) Ltd., Toshiba House, Frimley Road, Frimley, Camberley, Surrey, GU16 5JJ. Telephone: (0276) 62222.
Feb 1984: Television ad from Toshiba
(+Manual Version Television)
«Nothing remotely approaches it.»
🟩 TELETEXT | #Ceefax klaxon.
Doesn't get many mentions on BBC TV these days. But we'll them!
Ceefax question on The Weakest Link.
#Teletext
Four options are presented for interpreting the mood held by the owner of a pair of eyes seen in extreme close-up in stark, grainy black and white.
Mistigram: reading body language isn't an exact science, but is subject to vagaries of culture & biology, something @atonalosprey.bsky.social played with in this monochrome study of ambiguous eyes. This #teletext screen was included in the MIST0223 artpack released 3 years ago this month.
You can still see this #teletext art exhibition until the end of Valentine's Month. 😎
