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 ...

The BBC’s Ceefax service, the world’s first teletext service, will finally be laid to rest this evening when the UK’s analogue TV signal is switched off for the last time. The UK is set to complete ...

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 ...

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, ...

BBC Ceefax is set for its final bow tonight as the TV text service ends after nearly four decades to make way for the UK's digital switchover. The much-loved service will be taken off air this evening ...

Before the rise of 24-hour networks and readily accessible internet access, bored television viewers in the UK seeking entertainment at 3AM would have to make do with Ceefax. The service was ...

The British teletext service Ceefax was launched on September 23, 1974 and it continued until 2012. A BBC story said: “Before the advent of the internet and 24-hour news channels, Ceefax was at ‘the ...

Long before the days of the internet and email the only way you could get information quickly was via Ceefax. It used part of the analogue TV signal to transmit its pixellated stories directly to your ...

Today marks the 50th anniversary of Ceefax, a teletext service available in the UK launched by the public service broadcaster BBC. While not the only teletext service available globally, it was the ...

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 ...