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April 18, 2012 11:05 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/47VZojIEdZs/farewell-ceefax-tv-teletext.html
Farewell, Ceefax: TV teletext service dies; nonsense pages immortalized in "Look Around You"
The UK television teletext service known as Ceefax ("See Facts") has been terminated. So sad! It began in 1972. I remember staring at the chunky pixelly pages for hours in my hotel room, on my first visit to the UK in the 1990s. Robert Popper, funnyman and Look Around You co-creator, says: I thought Id [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/47VZojIEdZs/farewell-ceefax-tv-teletext.html
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