Did boomers really find this useful? How?
>>110308444wack off to pixel titties
>>110308444Checking stock prices at home. Checking lotto numbers at home. Checking weather. You have to remember this predates the internet and even long after many households did not have connection or even PC.
>>110308444It presented news, weather, what's the problem?
>>110308465>predates the internetUmm akschually you mean 'the web', the internet predates teletext.
>>110308444Imagine you had no on demand information. You had newspapers (on paper), TV and Radio.
>>110308449they were dark times but we had to make do with what we were given
>>110308444>be OP, part of 95% of people>can't extrapolate, arguments are based on gut emotional reactions and one-dimensional comparisons>no internal or external intuition other than sussing out people who actually have discernment and attempting to harvest their loosh>only desire is to mock others less fortunate because subconsciously you know you're clueless and thusly worthless and powerless>be me>react to slide thread
>>110308444my dad and gramps used these to check football match results before smartphones and more niche TV channels became a thing>t. Polack
>>110308444Teletext was actually really good. The "teletext" that digital tv had was a huge downgrade.
>>110308444Teletext was awesome. My mum would have it on to see if my dad's flights landed on time and stuff. My dad would have it on for the footie scores or something.
>wasAll my elderly relatives still use it to check sports resultsI used to use it to check TV programming and weather
>>110308444other than stuff already mentioned, I remember some music channel used teletext to display the currently playing song artist and titleyou could set teletext to be semi-transparent and watch the video while the song info was just two lines of text at the bottom of the screen
>>110308444holy shit core memory came back of me waiting dad to finish looking at football match results on teletext so i can watch cartoons on the family tv
OP confirmed faggot
>>110308444Yes, it was usefuland you will never be a real woman
>>110308596It doesn't exist in my country anymore. It was phases out some time in the 2010s
>>110308663Rent free
I still use it. Mainly for news and sports results.
i remember using this on my grandparents tv, shit was so cash when i was a kid,
>>110308465Don't forget the most expensive chats ever.
>>110308444>ads even in teletextfucking americucks man, what a fucking shitshow of a countryimagine being force-fed adverts in fucking teletext but to answer your question, it offered a lot of information we now get from the internet, such as news, weather, and even local shit like sports results. and if you don't live in a shit hole, without ads.
>>110308861>ben 18>zoek een meisje tussen 15 en 17haha wtfook die trucker, kkr wanhopig. hopelijk heeft fury weer licht
>>110308909Dutch is NOT a real language and I'm tired of pretending it is
>>110308927spring voor een trein, teringlijer
>>110308935spring train vore? what the fuck?
>>110308861they used these to communicate with prisoners who had tv access, always gypsies sending messages to another incarcerated one
>>110308945i assume trein means train and spring probably means jump, while teringlijer is likely some insult.>>110308927i don't get how the country is real
>>110308674got to be a dutchfagthere's literally a phone app that connects to teletext lmao
>>110309063It more looks like he typed English too fast and ended up accidentally pressing the wrong keys
>>110308526ZOOMERS ONLY UNDERSTANDVIDEOS WITH CAPTIONSSPELLING THREE WORDSAT A TIME
>>110308687> i remember using this on my grandparents tv, shit was so cash when i was a kid,I used to look after the Teletext system for a TV network back in the day: they all used DEC PDP11s and software from Logica. A couple of PDP11s were the editing machines and another was the production server. The data stream was inserted into the vertical interval of the analog video by a Tektronix 148 VITS inserter. Good old days with good $$$ back when computer people were not a dime a dozen
>>110308444It's a miracle this even exists these days as it's mostly used through the net, not TV. There really isn't an alternative to it. One of the few "just works" things still left.
>>110308444teletext was fuckin amazing. you are retarded and a faggot.
It's still there.
>>110309310>>Good old days with good $$$ back when computer people were not a cringe
>>110308669not a denial
>>110308465You have to understand that zoom zooms don't believe that the world was different before they were born. Many of them don't even fully believe that the world existed before they were born. A zoom zoom like OP wonders why boomers didn't just check the weather map on their phone. Tell them that the closest thing to that was dialing a phone number for the local "weather line" to hear a recording of the forecast, and they'll call you retarded and think you're lying to them.Had a junior developer the other day get mad when we were discussing an old COBOL system that needed a modern API built over it. He thought that TypeScript and Python existed in the 1950s and kept getting more and more irate as everyone else insisted those are modern inventions. He just couldn't conceptualize that computers haven't always had the capabilities they do now. In his mind, everything in the past that was different was due to stupid people picking stupid choices rather than the process of building upon what came before, which eventually got us to where we are today.
>>110308666There are simulators that take modern data feeds and display it in a Teletext format. Some people use them with their elderly relatives because it is something their brains still understand. Same with fake radios that old people can "tune" between stations, which are really audio files. In my own home, our automation screens usually show the weather and local traffic status but at eight past the hour, it shows a simulation of The Weather Channel from the 90s. Growing up, my wife's family left the tv on all day tuned to The Weather Channel so she loves seeing it pop up on the screen.
>>110308564it's still workinghttps://telegazeta.pl/it's also used as one-way communication with people in prisons. prisoners can have tvs, so they can see the teletext
>>110308897>americucksDid you not notice the .uk in OP's image? Teletext never caught on in the states. There were a few pilots in cities like Austin but those didn't last long. In the US, tech people already used BBSes and online services like CompuServe, and most everyone else had access to cable news channels that had the same information as Teletext. By the time they tried it out in the US, other tech had already filled that niche.
>>110309509>There are simulatorsSounds gay, but you do you bro
>>110308444I remember being bedridden for a week in the early 90s and play with it, like going to pages above 800 which just showed random character in random colors, and try to find patterns in themYes I am mildly autistic
Wow it's still there and looks the same as decades ago. Even has the ultra specific shit like METARs my dad used to check.
>>110308444when i was a child i used teletext to look up the league tables for our national football league. There was also a section with jokes that was updated daily, and i found them to be funny.
in spain still works and the national tv has even a modern viewer. desu i prefered the real old tv stylehttps://www.rtve.es/teletexto/100/
>>110308444tv programe listings and news articles right in your tv way before the internet became mainstream
>>110308542>they were dark timesBullshit.Were perfectly content jacking it to pixels and ASCII art. We just weren't overstimulated like today's generations.
fuck i miss it. fastest way to check programming or just quick news. quick, no ads. missed opportunity.
>>110308598Ah, now I remember. Subtitles used to be a teletext page 777, which only had text at the bottom. This was in Norway.
I used to check GameCentral every day
>>110310188Buddy there's a difference between pixel and 8 bit tittiesMight as well could have jerked it to Atari 2600 games
>>110310189>QuickYea just wait until the sweeping number lands on the page you picked, then wait more until the subpage changes to the one you want.
