Ceefax

35 years since it was first broadcast and Ceefax is still one of the best ways to get the latest news, sports and weather where you live. Yeah it may be show to load sometimes (especially if your TV doesn't have Fastext), but it's incredibly easy to get the information you desire. For me personally, this is usually the latest football news and league tables, which are updated almost instantly on a Saturday afternoon - the latest scores feature is incredibly handy if you can't watch Soccer Saturday. Sure, there's not as much information on Ceefax as there is on the Internet, but sometimes you don't wanna have to get up and switch your computer on - ...

Ceefax is a text based service provided by the BBC. It first began back in 1974, when just 30 pages were available for transmission. Over the years, this number has increased massively, and lots of information can now be found from the service. I first started using teletext and Ceefax back in the mid-eighties. In those days, there was no Internet or 24 hour news and sport channels, so Ceefax was by far the best way to get all of the latest information. You could access all of the big news stories, see all of the live sports scores and results, view all football league tables and even look at the weather forecasts. I used to spend hours on ...

Ceefax is an information system which can be accessed by tuning to any of the BBC's analogue channels and pressing the 'text' button on the remote. The service was first 'broadcast' in 1974 when it only featured thirty pages. Nowadays it includes a wide variety of information, and still is my primary source for finding out sport results. The new digital text service is both quicker and more polished, but I prefer the old-skool version ten-fold. I know where everything is and although you have to wait for pages to change - it does everything I need it to. I suppose it's an example of 'if it's ain't broke then don't fix it'. I will be quite ...