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The Teletext Archaeologist
@ttxarchaeologist.bsky.social
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Jason Robertson (@jaseinblack.bsky.social) presents a curated selection of teletext pages recovered from videotape. Also on Mastodon at @[email protected] and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/teletextarchaeologist
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The Teletext Archaeologist @ttxarchaeologist.bsky.social · 3h
A new service has been recovered by TandCsApply: BBC1 from 10 October 1989 2024:00

https://www.teletextarchive.com/Pages/List/2904
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The Teletext Archaeologist @ttxarchaeologist.bsky.social · 3h
A new service has been recovered by Tomsonic41: Channel Four from 10 October 1989 2324:00

https://www.teletextarchive.com/Pages/List/2905
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Horsenburger @horsenburger.bsky.social · 5h
TELETEXT HALLOWEEN: C is for Clockwork Orange

Because nothing says dystopia like bowler hats, classical music, and a bit of the old in-out.
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The Teletext Archaeologist @ttxarchaeologist.bsky.social · 15h
A new service has been recovered by John Aspinall: Channel Four from 09 October 1991 2224:31

https://www.teletextarchive.com/Pages/List/2902
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The Teletext Archaeologist @ttxarchaeologist.bsky.social · 15h
A new service has been recovered by John Aspinall: BBC2 from 09 October 1992 1924:39

https://www.teletextarchive.com/Pages/List/2903
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Nathan Dane @nmsni.co.uk · 19h
People sometimes ask about Ceefax stats:

- The current instance of the PFC stream has had 42,400 views in its 248 day runtime - or around 170 per day

- About 130 people per day read Ceefax via the interactive viewer

- Around 20 people use Ceefax on a Raspberry Pi (via feeds.nmsni.co.uk) every day
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The Teletext Archaeologist @ttxarchaeologist.bsky.social · 16h
Yeah, it needs tuned for sure
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The Teletext Archaeologist @ttxarchaeologist.bsky.social · 1d
A new service has been recovered by John Aspinall: Channel Four from 09 October 1991 2224:31

https://www.teletextarchive.com/Pages/List/2902
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The Teletext Archaeologist @ttxarchaeologist.bsky.social · 1d
A new service has been recovered by John Aspinall: BBC2 from 09 October 1992 1924:39

https://www.teletextarchive.com/Pages/List/2903
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CEEFAUX @ceefaux.bsky.social · 2d
22.00 FILM: EVRI-THING, EVRI-WHERE ALL AT ONCE. Award-winning multiverse adventure when you parcel is somehow at the depot, in transit, in your safe place, left with a neighbour, delayed, returned to sender, in your green bin, all at the same time- but never actually with you.
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ZXGuesser @zxguesser.bsky.social · 3d
Now we're cooking! This is the sort of recovery quality I wanted to see from these recordings 😀
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Horsenburger @horsenburger.bsky.social · 3d
TELETEXT HALLOWEEN A-Z: E is for Ecto-1

Sirens blaring, ghosts fleeing, and one stylish Cadillac tearing through spectral chaos.
Who ya gonna call?
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ZXGuesser @zxguesser.bsky.social · 4d
And the thing I most wanted to extract after seeing the tell-tale shape of it in the raw signal - gratuitous logo!
The Channel 4 logo, extracted from the IDENT service
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ZXGuesser @zxguesser.bsky.social · 4d
More IDENT from a much longer recording. You can see how the timings shift up the page as the items are broadcast.
(excuse all the mangled content this is still with a very hacked together teletext recovery process)
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ZXGuesser @zxguesser.bsky.social · 4d
Feeling at a loose end now that #ChunkyFringe is done and all the TVs are packed way until the next event, so I went picking at an old scab, and figured out how to process a hidden internal channel 4 teletext service called IDENT from a file that's been lurking on my hard drive since 2021 👀
Page 100 of a service called IDENT. It lists page numbers for things like a countdown, daily schedules, and transmission logs The IDENT countdown page. Showing what I think are timings for trailers.
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Russty Russ @russtyruss.bsky.social · 5d
Fancy seeing the top ten pop charts as seen on Ceefax #OnThisDay back in 1987 in which M/A/R/R/S/ wanted to Pump The Volume at number 1, Rick Astley Never Gonna Give You Up at 4 and Madonna is Causing a Commotion at 10.

#80s
Top 10 chart as seen on Ceefax back in 1987
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ZXGuesser @zxguesser.bsky.social · 5d
All the tellies up and running at #ChunkyFringe
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Super Page 58 @superpage58.bsky.social · 6d
Chunky Fringe opens its doors in less than two and a half hours. Come join us! www.arbitraryfiles.com/events/cf25/...

Or if you can’t make it to Harrow, @jamienemeth.bsky.social will be live streaming the events on Twitch.
m.twitch.tv/jamienemeth/...
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Russty Russ @russtyruss.bsky.social · 7d
Fancy seeing what was number 1 in the charts released #OnThisDay in 1993 courtesy of Ceefax in which Take That featuring Lulu were "Light My Fire" at 1 taking Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince down to 2.

(Source : @ttxarchaeologist.bsky.social)
#90s
Top 10 Ceefax chart from this day in 1993
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ZXGuesser @zxguesser.bsky.social · 8d
Well my other posts don't seem to have worked, so I've decided to try superliminal advertising to get people to create some #TeletextArt for Chunky Fringe.

blockparty.zxnet.co.uk
Teletext rendition of the Navy officer from the Simpsons episode "New Kids on the Blecch" shouting "Hey you! Make a Chunkytext page" out of the window.
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The Teletext Archaeologist @ttxarchaeologist.bsky.social · 8d
A new service has been recovered by Tomsonic41: BBC1 from 01 October 1989 1524:00

https://www.teletextarchive.com/Pages/List/2892
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The Teletext Archaeologist @ttxarchaeologist.bsky.social · 8d
A new service has been recovered by Tomsonic41: STV from 01 October 1989 1824:00

https://www.teletextarchive.com/Pages/List/2893
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The Teletext Archaeologist @ttxarchaeologist.bsky.social · 9d
A new service has been recovered by Tomsonic41: BBC1 from 01 October 1989 1524:00

https://www.teletextarchive.com/Pages/List/2892
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The Teletext Archaeologist @ttxarchaeologist.bsky.social · 9d
A new service has been recovered by Tomsonic41: STV from 01 October 1989 1824:00

https://www.teletextarchive.com/Pages/List/2893
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Mark Fraser @mfraz74.bsky.social · 9d
#Radio2 FM only #Radio5 & new #Radio1 transmitters.
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