Long before the days of the internet and email the only way you could get information quickly was via Ceefax. It used part of the analogue TV signal to transmit its pixellated stories directly to your ...

Ceefax, a staple of childhoods for several generations, has bid goodbye today and we wave back with a tribute to one of their funnier mistakes. Rhona Martin was the ...

Ceefax was the world's first teletext service, going live on 23 September 1974. In a pre-internet world, the revolutionary system allowed people to check the latest BBC news and sport updates at the ...

There is almost an over-abundance of information when following football these days, with live streaming and live updates in the form of tweets, stats, and heat maps all just a click away. If you’re ...

BBC Ceefax, the world's first teletext service, has completed its final broadcast after 38 years on air. Before Olympic champion Dame Mary Peters turned off the last of the UK's analogue TV signals in ...

Ceefax was the BBC’s text-based TV news service which taught a generation of journalists to write stories in chunks of four paragraphs which made sense whatever scrolling page of an article the reader ...

The teletext service Ceefax will be switched off in the London area today (April 18). The long-running analogue TV information service will be turned off after nearly 40 years as part of the ongoing ...