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 ...

AS the 10th anniversary of its final day falls this weekend, fans of Ceefax are becoming nostalgic for simpler times when, in a pre-internet, pre-rolling news existence, the world’s first teletext ...

With millions of people having just lost Ceefax, after the analogue TV signal was switched off across London, we look back at10 features of the original real-time information network, which – with its ...

BBC Ceefax, the world's first teletext service, has completed its final broadcast after 38 years on air. Before Olympic champion Dame Mary Peters turned off the last of the UK's analogue TV signals in ...

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 ...

Another groundbreaking technology bites the dust today as the analogue tv service is switched off in Northern Ireland. It's the last time anyone will be able to view live Ceefax pages. After an ...

Software engineers said it was a ‘modern-day equivalent’ to restoring steam engines (Picture: pagesfromceefax) Software engineers have built their own teletext service four years after BBC Ceefax left ...

Ceefax, the world's first teletext service created by BBC engineers in 1974, will disappear forever tonight as the final part of the digital TV switchover is completed. By Ben Bryant 23 October 2012 • ...

CEEFAX – the much-loved information text service from the BBC – was yesterday turned off in Wales as the nation completed its digital switchover. CEEFAX – the much-loved information text service from ...