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[-] Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 136 points 11 months ago

It was done. Teletext delivered news, sports results, horoscopes, closed captions, all directly to your TV in real-time. It was quite clever as a pre-internet method to deliver text content to every home.

All the people in the comments here being unaware of this makes me feel old.

[-] elbarto777@lemmy.world 21 points 11 months ago

It was not a thing in the places I grew up in. But when I saw it working during a European visit, it blew my mind. That was 20 years ago.

[-] Hubi@feddit.de 10 points 11 months ago

I don't know how it is in other countries, but at least here in Germany teletext is still a thing and works on all the larger channels.

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 13 points 11 months ago
[-] Hubi@feddit.de 7 points 11 months ago

I never said it was good or practical lol

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 4 points 11 months ago

As someone who doesn't understand german, Devote sklavin für dich. Devote slave for you? And what's that korperl zuchtingung?

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Körperliche Züchtigung: ~~bodily desires~~ edit: mistook with süchtig, actually means corporal punishment
Devote Sklavin für dich: you are correct
Fesseln+Knebeln: Bondage+gag
1,99€/Min.v.FN Mobil abw. -w-: ~~No idea~~ edit: $2.49/min. from landline, mobile varies [ad]

This is one of the more SFW pages actually. There are lots of pixelated nudes, as well as a cryptic page of colored rectangles, which you are supposed to scan with an app for the full AR experience and also buy as an NFT?
I didn't follow any of the links so all I saw was
ResizedImage_2023-12-11_16-52-45_2470

[-] spacesweedkid27@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

"Heiße Uschi120+ bringt Dein Rohr ohne Vorspiel zum Glühen"

Wow

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

For non-German speakers: "Hot Uschi20+ will get your tube red hot without foreplay".

The phrase „Rohr zum Glühen bringen“ literally means "bring a tube to glow" and originated back when electronics used vacuum tubes. I'm not German so I have no idea how common it is today but I assume this bit is for an old audience.

Great find, I missed that.

[-] Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

This is bringing back memories. I never saw raunchy classifieds like this in Aus though.

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

This is one of the more SFW ones. You know what, I'll make an ImageMagick script to crop & aspect-ratio-correct the rest of the ones I took and upload them. Coming soon!

Edit: Imgur album, feel free to report as NSFW lol
- omg, the "SEX SEX SEX" sign is actually flashing
You can also view most German teletext services using their app for some reason

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Teletext is a fun art form. Too bad the graphics are only really used for tarot and phone sex ads.

Anyway, here are some of my recreations of Czech cartoon characters using the online editor at edit.tf:

I have more but I am rate limited. Imgur album

[-] Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

It's at least 30 year old technology. Maybe older.

[-] elbarto777@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Yup. I know because I grew up reading magazines with one article or two about it. It was neat to see it in person, though.

[-] RealFknNito@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

The current generation doesn't even know what a VHS is. I'm sorry, time comes for us all.

[-] Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

My nieces once asked to see my rectangular DVDs...

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago

In their defense when I was a kid I called red dead redemption, GTA cowboys. If kids dont know what to call something theyll figure out an equivalent.

[-] FangedWyvern42@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I do. I’ve never seen or touched one, but I know what it is.

[-] elbarto777@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Buy one second hand and fiddle with it. Curious machines!

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 0 points 11 months ago

Out-dated and worthless you mean?

There is no need to understand the technology.

Not that tape storage is dead, it is just not relevant anymore.

[-] elbarto777@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Who's saying anything about being relevant. There is no need to smoke cigars or make oil paintings either. Yet people do things that they find interesting regardless of what you think. Interesting, huh?

[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

Don’t worry, I’ve never touched a gas lamp but I know what it is.

[-] marietta_man@yall.theatl.social -2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Do you mean a VCR? Or A “VHS tape”?

[-] RealFknNito@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

You know what a cassette is. I don't need to call it a cassette tape do I?

[-] marietta_man@yall.theatl.social 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

When they were widely used, people called cassette tapes “tapes” (common) or “cassettes” (less common). I don’t recall anyone calling a VHS videotape or VCR “a VHS”.

Similarly, I have seen people recently say “a vinyl”, which wasn’t ever the way it was said. (it would be music “on vinyl” or “a record”).

[-] RealFknNito@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

The only time I have ever in my thirty years of life heard someone refer to a VHS as a "videotape" or "tape" is in the context of "tape that show for me". It's always been "Video" or if they're specifying the format "grab the videotape" or "VHS" a lot like how people today say "DVD".

I think we'd both agree someone who calls a "DVD" a "DVD Disc" insane and someone who just says "Disc" could mean CD-ROM, Blueray, so forth. It's too general and I think the same thing applies to "tape".

[-] marietta_man@yall.theatl.social 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah, “video” was common, but “VHS” wasn’t. Maybe kids who developed language as the format was expiring in the early-mid 90s didn’t have lots of examples and just thought the letters printed on the tape were a noun.

[-] Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

It was when both VHS and Betamax was on the market.

[-] omgarm@feddit.nl 7 points 11 months ago

Teletext in the Netherlands has an app now. People still use it.

[-] Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Hey, while it looks like a dog's breakfast, it is an incredibly low bandwidth solution for such a useful service.

[-] NounsAndWords@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

On NY1 they just straight up read the newspaper to you on TV.

[-] Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

There are many radio shows around the world dedicated to reading news articles for print impaired people. Great for when you're driving as well.

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Some places didn't have that.

Like places in Asia jumped from radio to cable tv to mobile phones, skipping intermediate technologies like tv with only one or two channels, computers etc

[-] Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

That surprises me. Many parts of Asia have a big gambling scene; one of the main uses of Teletext was horse/dog racing odds in real time.

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I think they might have been gambling with cards or lottery when teletext was a thing in Europe.

That was the thing in India at least.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matka_gambling

[-] Amaltheamannen@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

Still exists in Sweden, though I haven't seen it since I was a kid.

[-] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 1 points 11 months ago

I remember this, but I think it was only one local channel here. It would show community events, snow plow schedules, and things like that.

Or was that something else?

[-] Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

There were many pages, I'm not sure if you count that as channels? Then the Teletext for closed captions were tied to the channel you were overlaying on.

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