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This applies to all channel's text pages services but just though I'd list some stuff.
The John Peel Show Tracklistings - back in the 90s I taped his shows and listended to them back at work then I would sit through the pages (usually around 12 of them) writting out the names of the music I liked. Ditto for the BBC Radio 3 show, Mixing It.
Digitizer - Channel 4 daily page dedicated to computer games. Really liked it's humour and for the fact it dropped names like Rob Hubbard. I still remember the new pages were updated at exactly 1:00 AM.
Footy scores on Saturday - seeing the pages tick over and your team's score changes from 0 to 1. Trilling stuff! Kept this on 'Mix' mode where you could watch tele and view the text at the same time.
TV Guide - for when your dad had chucked out/hadn't bought yet the daily newpaper.
Cinema listings - I think this was on C4. The listings were arraned alphabetically so I had to wait until my region came around. Expect 20 pages or so for this one. So sloooow.
The secret pages! - I was convinced that there were pages on Ceefax that I stumbled upon just by randomly hitting page numbers that weren't listed. Some number like 774 which didn't fit into any category but revealed a page for just half a second. Kind of jumbled text in a way but still, I found this intriguing at a young(ish) age and tried to figure out some of the page bit by bit.
The John Peel Show Tracklistings - back in the 90s I taped his shows and listended to them back at work then I would sit through the pages (usually around 12 of them) writting out the names of the music I liked. Ditto for the BBC Radio 3 show, Mixing It.
Digitizer - Channel 4 daily page dedicated to computer games. Really liked it's humour and for the fact it dropped names like Rob Hubbard. I still remember the new pages were updated at exactly 1:00 AM.
Footy scores on Saturday - seeing the pages tick over and your team's score changes from 0 to 1. Trilling stuff! Kept this on 'Mix' mode where you could watch tele and view the text at the same time.
TV Guide - for when your dad had chucked out/hadn't bought yet the daily newpaper.
Cinema listings - I think this was on C4. The listings were arraned alphabetically so I had to wait until my region came around. Expect 20 pages or so for this one. So sloooow.
The secret pages! - I was convinced that there were pages on Ceefax that I stumbled upon just by randomly hitting page numbers that weren't listed. Some number like 774 which didn't fit into any category but revealed a page for just half a second. Kind of jumbled text in a way but still, I found this intriguing at a young(ish) age and tried to figure out some of the page bit by bit.
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