i miss coming in drunk and putting ceefax on and chilling out to the elevator esque music

when i was a child, i used to regularly wake up at 4am, sit down on the couch and put this on. i had no idea what the text even meant or what i was watching but something about it felt strangely comforting. then i usually went back to bed

Teletext services were of huge significance back in the day. Much more than people credit it. It served its time, and reached a natural end. But I really do enthuse over its importance in providing on demand, up to the minute information. It was groundbreaking and should never be overlooked.

Finally found this. When i was younger, going on holiday we always got an early flight out at about 10/11am so I used to get up at about 4:30 and this was always on. So many a brilliant holiday was started with this. So a lot of memories are being brought up with this.  

The theme: video game theme
The music: calm music

The story: "Man found dead in scotland"

I used to suffer with bad insomnia in my teens . I would lie awake all night and this smooth fucking jazz would calm the torment of my soul . Classy as shit

i remember sleeping at ny grans and falling asleep with the TV and waking up to ceefax it was actuallg one of the finer points of my childhoof. I actually enjoyed sitting their listening to the music aha
then the digital switchover happened...  I

There we go , there's that classic easy listening jazz that haunted our childhood at 2 am

Still miss Ceefax

Saturday afternoon, the sun close to the horizon, a fog of cigarette smoke and my grandad asleep on the sofa with this endlessly looping on the football news in a silent room.

[Tracklists]
01 - Great Ocean Road (Edit) - 0:41
02 - Cloud Surf Sunset - 3:05
03 - Eye Candy - 7:46
04 - Graceful Moves - 10:58
05 - Carpe Diem - 13:10
06 - The Fourth Reason - 19:04
07 - Elcardo - 24:06
08 - Super Dreams - 29:20
09 - Cavo Paradiso - 34:52
10 - Moments in Love - 41:06
11 - Sunlips - 46:50
12 - Hey Rozalinda - 52:36
13 - Mountainscape - 58:59
14 - In and Out - 1:04:20
15 - Bart - 1:09:05

That bit about disabled people's lives being worse after the move from DLA was pretty much spot on. So many people died :(

People liked Ceefax and Teletext because it was instant and simple.

That was never replaced.

Nice that they ended everything with ruby's Bart though- an iconic 70s BBC tune.

A few months before the end of Ceefax, we lost Minitel in France.
2012 was sadly the end of 1st-gen communications !

I remember my mum frantically scrolling through teletext for help when we thought my sister had broke her foot 😂 was all good though!

Why did they have to stop teletext?? there are thousands of people that would use it this very day every day, so much better than red button txt

Every night I play a Ceefax video on YouTube and with the help of ceefax music I fall asleep

I remember in 86 or 87, just after the storm, looking at Ceefax round a friends house, and watching the share prices tumble as the market crashed.

Dear Ceefax,

We miss you.

Much love,

From, Britain.