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Ceefax

before the internet teletext was awesome. remember coming home from school and the first thing i would do is check teletext football news. 302 (as mentioned above for bbc) and 401 for itv. i remember when utd bought andy cole for 7million and it was a bit of a shock at the time and thought that it was an insane amount of money. read all of that on teletext.

best place to check up to date scores as well
 
spursworm said:
before the internet teletext was awesome. remember coming home from school and the first thing i would do is check teletext football news. 302 (as mentioned above for bbc) and 401 for itv. i remember when utd bought andy cole for 7million and it was a bit of a shock at the time and thought that it was an insane amount of money. read all of that on teletext.

best place to check up to date scores as well
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So much of my childhood was spent sat in front of the latest Prem scores waiting for the page to turn to the Spurs score and hoping a goal had popped up for us! To think nowadays I just stream the match on my laptop. I wonder how much easier it'll be to see the matches in another 15 years...virtual reality seat in the stadium?
 
BedfordBen said:
So much of my childhood was spent sat in front of the latest Prem scores waiting for the page to turn to the Spurs score and hoping a goal had popped up for us! To think nowadays I just stream the match on my laptop. I wonder how much easier it'll be to see the matches in another 15 years...virtual reality seat in the stadium?
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i did the same. although unfortunately those were the pre jol days when we were utter brick for the majority of the mid/late nineties/2000s. occasionally would check the score and would be 3-0 down against charlton or something
 
spursworm said:
i did the same. although unfortunately those were the pre jol days when we were utter brick for the majority of the mid/late nineties/2000s. occasionally would check the score and would be 3-0 down against charlton or something
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I remember excitedly getting home one Sunday afternoon to check the latest score, to my horror we were 3-0 down at home to Boro, Hamilton Ricard hat trick I think it was. and I remember 'watching' the Spurs v Villa game on Ceefax, lost 4-3 in Gerry's first game in charge. not sure why defeats stick in the memory!!

In good news, it was when I got home from school one day, flicked to page 140 (the ooold page number for Football!) to see the top news 'Spurs sign German star Klinsmann'. Did a celebratory run around the living room!
 
spursworm said:
before the internet teletext was awesome. remember coming home from school and the first thing i would do is check teletext football news. 302 (as mentioned above for bbc) and 401 for itv. i remember when utd bought andy cole for 7million and it was a bit of a shock at the time and thought that it was an insane amount of money. read all of that on teletext.

best place to check up to date scores as well
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clubcall adverts on teletex were the ITK of their day, some flimflam cryptic message you had to try and decipher!
 
NW5pur said:
clubcall adverts on teletex were the ITK of their day, some flimflam cryptic message you had to try and decipher!
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wow you absolutely right about that, what a nostalgia trip. would always be something like

Spurs linked with Italian megastar call 0845 ...at a £1 a second
 
I suppose Ceefax, the first teletext, was in some ways the first wireless internet.

I was just reading about a proposal to to build the Charles Babbage's analytical engine, (see Why we want to build Charles Babbage's Victorian computer), which was a design for a mechanical computer. Its interesting how some ideas are too early to be practical, or underappreciated as to how innovative they really are, while others are hyped from the roof tops.
 
Armenia Spur said:
In good news, it was when I got home from school one day, flicked to page 140 (the ooold page number for Football!) to see the top news 'Spurs sign German star Klinsmann'. Did a celebratory run around the living room!
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:) I remember that too (the headline, not your celebratory run around the living room).
 
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spursworm said:
before the internet teletext was awesome. remember coming home from school and the first thing i would do is check teletext football news. 302 (as mentioned above for bbc) and 401 for itv. i remember when utd bought andy cole for 7million and it was a bit of a shock at the time and thought that it was an insane amount of money. read all of that on teletext.

best place to check up to date scores as well
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I remember teletext being page 140 before 401 too!!

Sad news.
 
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I think the bottom one is fake judging by the time and date of the one above also...:lol:
 
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