Eleven things we loved about Teletext
Known as Ceefax on the Beeb and Teletext pretty much everywhere else, this much-adored marriage of television and text worked by broadcasting an extra signal to each channel and then translating it into text on your screen using a decoder. While the service used what are now the most laughably dated-looking graphics, it could provide up-to-date information on everything from news and weather to telly listings and football results. Teletext played the role of the internet long before such a thing became commercially available. Here are eleven things we loved (and some we loathed) about the now defunct television data service.