Chris to internet funeralEnglish • 1 year agoThe end of the world is nighfeddit.ukimagemessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up1267arrow-down15 starcopymore-verticalflagCreate ReportslashBlock usercross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1262arrow-down1imageThe end of the world is nighfeddit.ukChris to internet funeralEnglish • 1 year agomessage-square14fedilink starcopymore-verticalflagCreate ReportslashBlock usercross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•edit-21 year agoMore likely EGA or VGA with 16 or 256 available colors. CGA was only 4 and the colors were chosen by someone who really liked pink. Still, there was probably some video mode somewhere that only had 8 colors. Edit: I didn’t know teletype was not PC related. TIL. arrow-up19arrow-down14file-textreply1starmore-verticalmailMessageflagCreate ReportslashBlock user
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish26•1 year agoThis is not pc-related though. Teletext was information pages transmitted on UK terrestrial (analogue) television channels in the long-distant past. arrow-up126arrow-down10file-textreply1starmore-verticalmailMessageflagCreate ReportslashBlock user
minus-squareno bananalinkEnglish12•edit-21 year agoI’ve always loved it. Here in Sweden it’s called text-tv. Edit: Was supposed to say it’s but said was arrow-up112arrow-down10file-textreply1starmore-verticalmailMessageflagCreate ReportslashBlock user
minus-square@PixxlManlinkEnglish4•1 year agoIt’s still around! arrow-up14arrow-down10file-textreply1starmore-verticalmailMessageflagCreate ReportslashBlock user
minus-squareno bananalinkEnglish5•edit-21 year agoI know but I don’t use my TV as a TV anymore! Do see that I wrote “was” though. There’s also the app, but it’s not the same. arrow-up15arrow-down10file-textreply1starmore-verticalmailMessageflagCreate ReportslashBlock user
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•1 year agoOh cool. I didn’t understand that it was a completely different tech. TIL, thanks. arrow-up17arrow-down10file-textreply1starmore-verticalmailMessageflagCreate ReportslashBlock user
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•1 year agoThe BBC closed Ceefax in 2012. If that’s the long distant past then my date of birth suggests I’m an antique… arrow-up16arrow-down11file-textreply1starmore-verticalmailMessageflagCreate ReportslashBlock user
minus-squareDarkThoughtslinkfedilink4•1 year agoNot just the UK. arrow-up14arrow-down10file-textreply1starmore-verticalmailMessageflagCreate ReportslashBlock user
minus-squareChrisOPlinkfedilinkEnglish10•1 year agoIn your defence it never came to Canada. I made that pic myself in a teletext editor, so it’s genuine teletext, not made to look like it. arrow-up110arrow-down10file-textreply1starmore-verticalmailMessageflagCreate ReportslashBlock user
More likely EGA or VGA with 16 or 256 available colors. CGA was only 4 and the colors were chosen by someone who really liked pink.
Still, there was probably some video mode somewhere that only had 8 colors.
Edit: I didn’t know teletype was not PC related. TIL.
This is not pc-related though. Teletext was information pages transmitted on UK terrestrial (analogue) television channels in the long-distant past.
I’ve always loved it. Here in Sweden it’s called text-tv.
Edit: Was supposed to say it’s but said was
It’s still around!
I know but I don’t use my TV as a TV anymore! Do see that I wrote “was” though.
There’s also the app, but it’s not the same.
Oh cool. I didn’t understand that it was a completely different tech. TIL, thanks.
The BBC closed Ceefax in 2012. If that’s the long distant past then my date of birth suggests I’m an antique…
Not just the UK.
In your defence it never came to Canada.
I made that pic myself in a teletext editor, so it’s genuine teletext, not made to look like it.