https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT%C3%89_Aertel
I don't have terrestrial TV (saorview) anymore to test, but apparently its still broadcast according to the wiki.
Teletext was very handy pre-internet, weather, news, TV listings, flight times etc, all on a feed.
The Internet was invented in 1973 and testing began of the new protocols in 1975.
Teletext, in the form of Ceefax, was pioneered by the BBC in 1972.
So yes, Teletext was indeed pre-Internet. (-:
It's a small detail but Poland was never a part of the USSR. Could be changed to "exited the Eastern Bloc".
I'd use it to look up Movie times at the local cinema and the weather forecast. We've came a long way since then !!
Naturally, you can: https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/create-your-own-teletext-se...
For those like me who weren't familiar with the service or lived in a country that really didn't have it, there's this informative site: https://teletextarchaeologist.org/
Edit: Sorry all, it looks like teletextarcheologist.org went dormant, so the archive no longer seems to be working.
In case you’re unfamiliar, three-digit numbers on Teletext pages serve as hyperlinks. On a TV you would enter them on the remote control, in the browser you can just click or tap on them.
There are also mobile apps for accessing Teletext.
Some of the news listings are perfect, given confined space, but no need to be click-baity. See, f.ex. the news-in-english page [1]
They fully revamped their Teletext backend a couple of years ago to their own solution. They had archaic hardware still, and had to fly in some one from the UK (fully pensioned and well) to service it
mvdwoord•4h ago
Anyway, I distinctly remember my father getting a new TV with teletext around 1987, and I could play endlessly with that. Also amazing that up until way in the 2000s I knew people who relied on it as the primary source for basic headlines, weather, but also traffic information on trains as well as expected landing times for airplanes. Of course the football standings in the Dutch Eredivisie was possibly the most viewed page of all. Completely wiped out by the internet, but all in all a surprisingly long run for any tech.
p.s. online still available (Dutch)
https://teletekst-data.nos.nl/webplus?p=100-01
clydethefrog•4h ago
It's not at all, although we can discuss the nature of the medium.
>Last year, the Teletekst app was used daily by an average of 690,000 people. They opened the app an average of 2.4 million times per day. The news index on page 101 was accessed 1.9 billion times in 2024, making it the most visited page, followed by the football index 801, with 530 million visits.
https://nos.nl/artikel/2561892-informatief-en-zonder-poppenk... (Dutch news article)
mvdwoord•3h ago
duckerduck•2h ago
`ssh teletekst.nl`
NoboruWataya•2h ago
It re-confirms my view that the terminal can be a great way to consume news if the content is specifically created for that format. Just using elinks to browse news websites doesn't really work well these days. I wonder if there are any telnet-based news services (or similar) out there still.