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Teletext on a BBC Computer in 2024

by @LinuxJedi linuxjedi.co.uk published 2024-01-25

Before the Internet, if we wanted to read up-to-the-minute news or weather, we had Teletext. It is a low-bandwidth text standard that used to be sent via the hidden black border on TV signals.

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