This year sees the 25th anniversary of the birth of Teletext. I've written before on how I came about this, or at least sure I have anyway. For the uninitiated Teletext was kinda like a text based internet on your TV, supplying you with information and even rudimentary games and stuff.
It had a comic strip Turner the Worm which I liked, a music page, a sci fi page and best of all Digitiser a gaming page.
Coming off from writing a terrible school zine and finding someone doing it with similar tastes in humour on the TV(though mine was more non PC and such) was a revelation. We only really found out about it due to Super Play magazine championing it along with Fast Show quotes and such.
Used to watch it while having lunch, which meant channel 4 and having to put up with Channel 4 schools programmes (no hardship, would like to know if any of them survived, specifically the Northern Irish one which went on about the little Whammy) and Friends which is fuck awful.
The best of all was one day they had the Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde, to date the only opera I can stomach.
If you want to relive the first four or so days and such, here are the links to each day.
Monday New years day.
Tuesday.
Wednesday.
Thursday final Day.
The online home of Bear or Bust.
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