I can’t believe it’s from 1975! Ahead of its time!
@ajs41 Жыл бұрын
25 years after this, American TV still had nothing similar.
@rtcp2020 Жыл бұрын
@@ajs41 25 years after 1975 is the year 2000
@michaelturner44579 ай бұрын
@@ajs41 I believe teletext was trialled in the US by a few stations, but it never gained FCC approval and wide acceptance. It had most success around the world in PAL system countries. The US and Canada instead got the closed captions system, which uses the same field blanking interval as teletext. France had a similar teletext type system called Antiope on their SECAM system.
@bojack404 жыл бұрын
I imagined Peter Purves as my older brother when I was a little boy. It’s amazing how such things can take hold and help when you are a kid
@TheTVRoom7 жыл бұрын
What a fantastic find! Great to see these sample pages from the earliest days of Ceefax. Thanks for uploading!
@olliedann4 жыл бұрын
Apols for horrifically delayed reply. Thanks and glad you enjoyed this clip!
@MrClingclong3 жыл бұрын
We had our first Teletext TV in the early 80’s and we thought it was great. Great bit of TV nostalgia with Blue Peter.
@inny742 жыл бұрын
Ceefax...The internet before the internet.
@johnking51745 жыл бұрын
I want to go back to the 1970s so much. Three TV channels and that was your lot. When those three channels actually cared about the viewers, since there were only three stations, it meant a lot. Now BBC and ITV do not give a stuff about us.
@darganx4 жыл бұрын
Now it's just 'Shut up and pay your licence fee!'
@johnking51744 жыл бұрын
@@darganx I love trying to explain the licence fee to Americans, they can not believe it.
@stepheng87792 жыл бұрын
@@johnking5174 anyone who's seen 'live' American TV needs to keep quiet.
@johnking51742 жыл бұрын
@@stepheng8779 Why?
@stepheng87792 жыл бұрын
@@johnking5174 Ads every 5 minutes, quality control non existent. Think the worst experience on Freeview then imagine it 20 times worse.
@meganoikz6 жыл бұрын
Poor guy typing in the Ceefax HQ, he suffered from "someone is watching me type syndrome" and slowed right down.
@97channel7 жыл бұрын
2:09 Charlie Chaplin had the flu?! In 1975?! Yikes, he was in far better health than I'd have thought for 1975!
@Jehannum20004 жыл бұрын
Why?
@Blubatt4 жыл бұрын
considering the guy's age at the time, he was in his late 80's, the flu probably would have killed him. He died in 1977, as it goes.
@twitchygiraffe46366 жыл бұрын
Ceefax! It was the internet of it's day for about 20 years by the looks of it! I actually had no idea that they had this in the mid 70's, I always thought we only had it from the early 80's onwards until the world wide web would finally outdate it!!
@bb3ca2015 жыл бұрын
I seem to remember Ceefax transmissions from as late as 1995 (the last time I went back to Scotland). Am I correct on the date?
@mbvideoselection3 жыл бұрын
@TheRenaissanceman65 Ceefax subtitles appeared on a few different pages to begin with. Eventually in 1981 they settled on 170, where they stayed until about 1988 when they moved to 888, which was a co-ordinated move with ITV and C4's Teletext service, Oracle.
@ajs412 жыл бұрын
@@bb3ca201 Ceefax was still going on until 2011. I used it until then myself.
@patrickr65052 жыл бұрын
@@ajs41 That's true!! Amazing it was still around in 2011...
@rich_edwards792 жыл бұрын
Yes, I used it right up until the very end. In the days before smartphones it was faster than booting up a PC. They could have continued broadcasting it with the DVB-T signal after switchover, but chose to discontinue it in favour of the 'Red Button'.
@steveb19722 жыл бұрын
I remember looking for holiday deals and if you missed the page you’d have to go all the way around again and hope the deal was still there!!!!!
@squishmallowfan0252 жыл бұрын
I love stuff like this - we certainly had Ceefax in the early 80s on the family TV (ok, in the UK it was the only one) but I had no idea it was around (if in its infancy) in the mid 70s! Just the fact you could call up "pages'" on the TV was pretty mind-blowing at the time.......
@martintonge32547 ай бұрын
Best line up by far.
@Jonathansyoutube5 жыл бұрын
This seems fantastic, where can I get ceefax for my smart phone?
@chrisst89224 жыл бұрын
Still going strong thanks to Tony Hall's decision to suspend his idea to stop it. These days it goes under the catchy title of The Red Button Service. Long may it continue.
@Keithbarber Жыл бұрын
In 2023, even the red button came under threat
@JonnyInfinite2 жыл бұрын
Notice how this isn't dumbed down for kids at all....
@birdman42742 жыл бұрын
More mature than listening to the child like Zoe Ball in the morning. Such a talentless overpaid goon. The BBC is finished and I hope it sinks very soon.
@highvoltageswitcher62562 жыл бұрын
He talking to GenX, mostly. No dumbing down or sugar coating sought or provided to this generation in UK at least.
@johnking51745 жыл бұрын
The BBC certainly made a lot of use of Ceefax pages, as from 1983-1986 it filled hundreds of hours of dead air on BBC One when they could not be bothered to provide daytime television. For example in 1984, BBC One during the summer would air Pages from Ceefax from 6.00am-6.30am, 9.00am-10.30am, 11.00am-12.30pm and from 2.00pm-3.55pm.
@Jehannum20004 жыл бұрын
I used to sit there reading it all.
@zubinix4 ай бұрын
Me too. Not sure what my parents thought I was doing! 😊
@geoffjoffy4 жыл бұрын
Excellent
@wiicool914 жыл бұрын
45 years ago. Damn.
@psycoticbastard5 жыл бұрын
Internet of the 70's
@timpriddy3493 жыл бұрын
James May lives everywhere.......
@richardprice77632 жыл бұрын
Peter's Pat Jennings hair was epic....
@Daeys2411 Жыл бұрын
This is amazing! The future is here …
@michaelturner44579 ай бұрын
One could always switch to Channel 4 and be Bamboozled. Which didn't exist in 1975 of course.
@marcelb72593 жыл бұрын
It was known has Teletex in France. Gosh, I almost forgot about that technology of the 70's 80's era.
@personface54572 жыл бұрын
Peter’s wearing spray-on jeans.
@marcse7en Жыл бұрын
And they're exceptionally tight around the old Purves family jewels! 🤣
@RaphIsStillASmark6 жыл бұрын
Oh, so this explains how CEEFAX, has all of the things before Online Things, were made, even KZfaq!
@dvidclapperton5 жыл бұрын
It was all included in the price of your TV licence. Once I got a Teletext set I was using Ceefax for hours.
@conscienceaginBlackadder5 жыл бұрын
The very important difference was, it was TV projecting at you what it chose to, it was not comment-interactive the way the web 7s.
@davidian77872 жыл бұрын
Bamboozle.
@johnbroadbelt2 жыл бұрын
Teletext it was called in NZ , Very flash back in the day
@highvoltageswitcher62562 жыл бұрын
Peter Kay’s “ tinternet”
@geoffreybolton14612 жыл бұрын
What a " Trill " seeing Pete's Budgie smuggler.
@RobinsVoyage2 жыл бұрын
So what did you black out at the top?
@explorer8066 жыл бұрын
"See facts"...geddit?
@jayaybe12 жыл бұрын
😃Peter's Budgie Smugglers were certainly a sign of the times 😁.
@That_Random_Bloke3 жыл бұрын
I’m sure kids loved updates re the IRA!! 🤣
@johnmiller00002 жыл бұрын
Thanks to John Craven's Newsround, kids then were actually interested in what was going on and the BBC wasn't afraid to explain.
@michaelturner44579 ай бұрын
Kids in the 70s might have been interested in current affairs. I know I waa. This was in the age long before trivial garbage like TikTok and YT Shorts. The Provisional IRA affected a lot of people all over the UK, and wasn't just Northern Ireland.
@hayriyuksel995 жыл бұрын
Vay beee adamlar teletex i 1975 te nasıl kullanılacağını anlatıyorlar
@teviottilehurst5 жыл бұрын
Distracted by those tight jeans x
@newforestpixie52973 жыл бұрын
Had Pete cracked Leslies’ Code by then ? 😁
@youtubeviewer70306 жыл бұрын
forunner to teletex
@dvidclapperton5 жыл бұрын
Telex I think it was called, and Prestel cost a fortune to run compared with the broadband or mobile broadband today. That was dial up internet costing more per minute than making a phone call did back then. Even in the 1990's on a YTS course, I did a little dabble of using Prestel to find out some information on it and it was still extortionate cost then.
@Vel_Plays_2.02 жыл бұрын
Was this very advanced for its time?
@michaelturner44579 ай бұрын
Yes, because there was nothing like it before. Previously we only got our news and current information from newspapers, newsreels, TV and radio broadcasts.
@tinytonymaloney78322 жыл бұрын
Peters hair style 😂😂
@michaelturner44579 ай бұрын
I often called it spaniel hairstyle. Because it looks like the ears of a King Charles spaniel dog. And then later on the mullet hairstyle became a thing.
@fredo1070 Жыл бұрын
Those jeans are a bit tight Peter, something for the Mums?
@michaelturner44579 ай бұрын
Evidently the BBC wardrobe department were a bit tight on their sizing here.
@marcse7en Жыл бұрын
CEEFAX NEWS HEADLINES: Peter's jeans are exceptionally tight around the old Purves family jewels! 🤣 ... You wouldn't think it would be allowed on kids TV?
@michaelturner44579 ай бұрын
The BBC wardrobe department were a bit tight on their sizing here.
@ttrjw4 жыл бұрын
Peter Purves sounds a bit disjointed.
@darrendodd6674 Жыл бұрын
'Im reading faster than you can type". Read slower, then!.