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, ...

Last Wednesday, as part of the "digital switchover", the analogue signal from my TV transmitter, Caradon Hill on Bodmin Moor, was turned off for good. Days later I am still in mourning for a cherished ...

After 38 years the BBC is retiring Ceefax, ending the first era of digital content delivery to the home. Launched in 1974, Ceefax was the world’s first teletext service—a proto-Internet delivering ...

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 ...

Ceefax, the world's first teletext service, is gradually being switched off around the country as the digital switchover takes hold. To mark its 35th birthday, Ceefax journalist Ian Westbrook has ...

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 ...

The BBC's teletext information service was a world first when it launched in 1974, and initially provided just 30 pages of information. The data was carried in a previously unused part of the spectrum ...

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 ...

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 ...

Before the emergence of Twitter and 24-hour online news, the main way of finding out what was happening in the world came via newspapers and the radio. But with the launch of the BBC's Ceefax – the ...

Nocturnal Ceefax viewers were often greeted by an oddball collection of jazz fusion, white soul and a jamboree of genres that only people who go on holiday to Polaris World are exposed to. A hint of ...

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 ...