Ceefax / Teletext

[davieG]

Remember this?

 

Saw on Breakfast TV a young lad has recreated Ceefax online - https://www.nathanmediaservices.co.uk/teletext-viewer/

[Fox92]

An early memory of mine was checking Ceefax for one of our games v Newcastle (not sure if home or away) and Savage had scored. Dunno why but I just remember that.

[Free Falling Foxes]

4 minutes ago, davieG said:

Remember this?

 

Saw on Breakfast TV a young lad has recreated Ceefax online - https://www.nathanmediaservices.co.uk/teletext-viewer/

I said in another thread quite recently, I can remember 'watching' some away games on Ceefax.

R Leicester live reports were restricted to once every 10 minute or when a goal was scored

Puts into perspective when we grumble if we can't get a stream in this day and age.

 

[Foxdiamond]

8 minutes ago, davieG said:

Remember this?

 

Saw on Breakfast TV a young lad has recreated Ceefax online - https://www.nathanmediaservices.co.uk/teletext-viewer/

Yes. This was such step forward at the time.

[Raj]

Loved it!!!

Waiting for the scores to update whilst listening to the match on the radio.

(Us darkies weren't welcome at Filbert Street in the early days!!!)

 

I'm sure we even booked a teletext holiday!!!

[stripeyfox]

That is brilliant

 

On a related topic, there is this company that can "ceefax" any match, league table etc and put it on a mug, print, coaster etc

 

https://www.retroclasico.co.uk/product/request-custom-ceefax-league-table-design/

 

 

[Izzy]

Ceefax page 302 will be etched in my memory forever I think.

[Corky]

Remember this well. Ceefax Pages used to be a time filler early in the morning on BBC2- didn't even need to change page.

[Chiltern Fox]

I was hooked on bamboozle. That was on c4 right?

[Bellend Sebastian]

For some reason the Ceefax football headline "Foxes imagine Lennon will join them" is etched onto my mind forever

[HighPeakFox]

13 minutes ago, Chiltern Fox said:

I was hooked on bamboozle. That was on c4 right?

 

[SouthStandUpperTier]

Just now, Bellend Sebastian said:

For some reason the Ceefax football headline "Foxes imagine Lennon will join them" is etched onto my mind forever

VALE PICK BOGIE TO STRENGTHEN SQUAD

 

That was the headline when Port Vale signed Ian Bogie.

[Paninistickers]

Booked a holiday off teletext once. 60 odd pages of sitting through; 

 

Crete 299pp 14nt Gatwick RO

Menorca 329pp 10nt Manchester HB

 

Then, once you'd identified a holiday, you'd have to scribble the phone number down quick before the page clicked over or you'd have to wait another 25 mins til the page came round

 

[Raj]

9 minutes ago, Paninistickers said:

Booked a holiday off teletext once. 60 odd pages of sitting through; 

 

Crete 299pp 14nt Gatwick RO

Menorca 329pp 10nt Manchester HB

 

Then, once you'd identified a holiday, you'd have to scribble the phone number down quick before the page clicked over or you'd have to wait another 25 mins til the page came round

 

🤣🤣🤣 yep I did this once!!!

Oh the kids nowadays- feckers dont realise how easy it all is!!!

 

[HybridFox]

Miss checking the scores and eagerly awaiting the page to change 

 

Also used it for checking film times at the cinemas in those days. But had to be quick!

Edited 6 January 2022 by TK95

[Houdini Logic]

58 minutes ago, Izzy said:

Ceefax page 302 will be etched in my memory forever I think.

I just clicked the link and my brain typed in '302' without even thinking or registering what I was doing. Crazy 

[Guest Electric Yetis]

1 hour ago, Fox92 said:

An early memory of mine was checking Ceefax for one of our games v Newcastle (not sure if home or away) and Savage had scored. Dunno why but I just remember that.

Away, 2-0.

[Bellend Sebastian]

52 minutes ago, SouthStandUpperTier said:

VALE PICK BOGIE TO STRENGTHEN SQUAD

 

That was the headline when Port Vale signed Ian Bogie.

The Ceefax guys didn't go for word play very often, but when they did, oh boy, it was powerful stuff

[NAKC20]

I still look at it now on the T.V.  Football is still page 302 and generally the latest scores are only 2-3 minutes behind the internet. Not sure if you can still book holidays on there but i like looking at the news headlines etc.. when i have 5 minutes peace after the rest of the rabble have gone bed.

[Chiltern Fox]

1 hour ago, Paninistickers said:

Booked a holiday off teletext once. 60 odd pages of sitting through; 

 

Crete 299pp 14nt Gatwick RO

Menorca 329pp 10nt Manchester HB

 

Then, once you'd identified a holiday, you'd have to scribble the phone number down quick before the page clicked over or you'd have to wait another 25 mins til the page came round

 

Didnt it have a hold button?

[ajthefox]

I remember seeing news that Roy Essandoh had scored against us for Wycombe via Ceefax - it's one of my earliest footballing memories where I specifically remember how gutted I was.

[Tuna]

390 for Regional Sports news 

[PAULCFC]

Remember my ex and me booking a holiday to teneriefe through a company called greentrees or something through Ceefax...saw the text,rang up and booked.....turned out it was an over 60's place...and we were early 20's!Still made a week of it!This must have been about 1989.

[foxile5]

Learnt that we had signed Collymore on Ceefax in the local members club. Heady days. 

[1972 Fox]

2 hours ago, PAULCFC said:

Remember my ex and me booking a holiday to teneriefe through a company called greentrees or something through Ceefax...saw the text,rang up and booked.....turned out it was an over 60's place...and we were early 20's!Still made a week of it!This must have been about 1989.

You'd still be slightly too young for it now!