1978: How Ceefax Changes Everything | Ceefax Is Here | BBC Archive
31K views · Jun 1, 2026 · Entertainment
Comments · 365
@Wizerud · 3 months ago
I used to love Ceefax. It was like a small part of the internet before the internet.
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@hedleythorne · 3 months ago
I had my jokes published once on Ceefax when I was a kid. I was so excited and felt famous!
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@201081hero · 4 months ago
Great film - it cant be overstated just what a brilliant useful service Ceefax was.
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@Paulssock · 3 months ago
Ceefax was a game changer for my dads horse betting, used to drive my old mum mad tho😂
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@video99couk · 4 months ago
I played my tiny little bit in this in that I was the test engineer for a Teletext Decoder chip called MV1817 (earlier MV1815). I pressed into service a purely digital production tester (Teradyne J941) to test this part which was mixed signal, that's to say part digital and part analogue. So lots of people would have been using these later components to use FastText, which had memory stores to make Teletext much faster and less frustrating to use.
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@calogeroesposito3082 · 4 months ago
Every time I see a service so old, I can't help but think how many people are still alive today...
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@djsherz · 3 months ago
I miss it. I've been overpaying for cauliflowers ever since the digital switchover.
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@williammackie4816 · 4 months ago
Thanks bbç archive for re showing it for the 1st time since 1978
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@annonimouse170 · 4 months ago (edited)
I remember it like muscle memory, 340 cricket homepage, 370 rugby.
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@MerryMac1000 · 4 months ago
I had a lot of trouble sleeping as a teenager (yay bullying) and reading CEEFAX was something I looked forward to at night.
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@andybailey3888 · 4 months ago (edited)
888 for subtitles, a massive bonus for the hard of hearing, we still have subtitles on to this day.
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@n1msu · 4 months ago
Fantastic video. BBC archive channel is in my top 5 YT channel ranking, and one of the reasons I pay for YT premium so I don't have to view adverts! Weird irony there too I think!
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