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With Ceefax bowing out today for millions of people I for one will miss it. An invaluable source for football scores long before Sky Sports News or the Internet.
I have fond childhood memories of following the football scores on Ceefax as the pages scrolled through you had to wait in anticipation to see if anything had changed.
My particularly favourite memory was the Crystal Palace - Man Utd match which had an unusual note underneath "see page 106" (or something similar) to send you to the breaking story of the Cantona kung fu kick. You knew it was serious if the beeb added that to the scorecast!
How long before an ipad retro version!
I have fond childhood memories of following the football scores on Ceefax as the pages scrolled through you had to wait in anticipation to see if anything had changed.
My particularly favourite memory was the Crystal Palace - Man Utd match which had an unusual note underneath "see page 106" (or something similar) to send you to the breaking story of the Cantona kung fu kick. You knew it was serious if the beeb added that to the scorecast!
How long before an ipad retro version!
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Agree. I remember being at Oasis Centreparcs in CUmbria when we played derby County away . I think it was the second game of Moyes' spell at Everton. Just checking on teletext waiting for the scores. Was a cracking game too. Derby 3-4 Everton in the end.
Likewise. A sad day. Hours and hours of my youth were spent on ceefax.... The waiting to get to the league you wanted through about 12 pages and annoyance if you missed a result and had to wait for it to go round again.
How different it is for the kids today. Anyting they could possibly need instantly.
I remember following the racing tips on channel 4's pages religiously when I was about 11
How different it is for the kids today. Anyting they could possibly need instantly.
I remember following the racing tips on channel 4's pages religiously when I was about 11
'I have fond childhood memories of following the football scores on Ceefax as the pages scrolled through you had to wait in anticipation to see if anything had changed.'
Great memories, I had this button that would alert you in the corner if the page updated with a goal or red card, it was unbearable near the end of the game. 302!!
Great memories, I had this button that would alert you in the corner if the page updated with a goal or red card, it was unbearable near the end of the game. 302!!
I remember getting my mates brother to put all our bets on in the bookies. Then off to another mates whose mum was at work. Grub and drinks ready then 'watch' the racing on Ceefax. The 'off' sign flashes then that tortuous wait for the result to flash up. Seemed to take bloody ages.
Better than being at school anyway
Better than being at school anyway
Loved the vidi printer (page 333 I think)
Ceefax's very own version of sky sports results
Ceefax's very own version of sky sports results
Early 90s as students doing 50p long lists, one from each section sort of thing on a saturday afternoon
one tv for ceefax, one tv for watching
every time it went round a goal would come up, guaranteed it had made or sunk somebodys line
one tv for ceefax, one tv for watching
every time it went round a goal would come up, guaranteed it had made or sunk somebodys line
Is it me, or did the last 5 minutes of a game take ages, and last minute goals never go my way
Interminable waits for pages to load, too many glitches, dreadful graphics and pictures often corrupted making you wonder why they bothered. Anyway, enough about Betfair... sad to see Ceefax go 
I can remember when a race was off Id switch the Ceefax back to normal tv then use a newspaper to do a slow tortuous reveal of the result when it came through from the bottom upwards to final find my horse was unplaced. How sad :(
back in the pre-sky yrs my dad used take bloody ages checking horse results
Yeah ceefax took a while to navigate, i remember playing bamboozle on channel 4!
very sad day if its true, dont live in britain any more so its a while since i made the last of my daily visits to pages 302 and 312. in sweden even though the broadcasts themselves have look been digital we do actually still have good old fashioned "retro" ceefax (and you can get an iphone app to look at the pages wherever you go).
pointless decison to get rid of it as well. the digital text service is totally charmless.
pointless decison to get rid of it as well. the digital text service is totally charmless.
Arguing with the other half "its red"...."its not its green"
"its fking red! " "told you! "
"its fking red! " "told you! "
http://bamboozle.teletextmobile.com - Bamboozle for iPhone, I'm having that!
Channel 4 Text had the bookmakers pages (page 600 I believe), reminded me of the screens at the bookies themselves.
I didn't even know they still had it. Always used to check page 302 when i got in from school.
Apr 18, 2012 -- 3:30PM, inner city sumo wrote:
Interminable waits for pages to load, too many glitches, dreadful graphics and pictures often corrupted making you wonder why they bothered. Anyway, enough about Betfair... sad to see Ceefax go
My TV is fecked. Can't get ITV to watch the football or any other channel. BBC2 disappeared 2 weeks ago too.
Football briefs on ceefax 312 and an unhealthy fascination with the premium rate (football) phone-line ads on teletext 141
spent many an afternoon looking at scores or horse racing results to update.
lol ics
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