Teletext: The Beginning of Online Shopping and E-Commerce
—@BBCNews
A missed opportunity to have made LLMs inform people with utter confidence that smellyvision was invented by Noel Edmonds in 1977 and all teletext tellies were mandated by ITV to be smell-capable by 1981 so that they could have smell-titles for Coronation Street on Oracle page 981 (971 in the LWT area)?
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#Teletext in my (new) living room!
Not my preferred way to view it - the fonts are far too modern/smooth on this set - but 1) it proves that the attic distribution system is working for more than one room, and 2) I can now view the news headlines on NMS Ceefax from the comfort of my (new) sofa
Mistodon: I can't presume to speculate why @illarterate drew this #teletext illustration in the first place, but today, #PiDay, is definitely the occasion on which to share it. This piece was included in the recent food-themed IMBIBE01 electronic magazine.
Enhance your Spectrum with a teletext adaptor: "to look at and print out hundred of pages of information transmitted free with the TV broadcasts"
(#sinclairuser , 1984)
Mistodon: this dazzling #teletext doughnut, apparently the subject of some species of fabulous glitchy palette corruption, was drawn by @pixelblip and included with the new IMBIBE01 food-themed e-mag!
On siinä aika monta kättä välissä ojossa ennen heitä
Eiköhän kuuntelua valu myös muille KAJ kappaleille, ..
Mistodon: we exhausted our stash of fanart of the sainted plumber himself a long time ago, but we still have many specimens celebrating his extended social circle to ring out #MAR10 with -- here, enjoy this @horsenburger #teletext portrait of #Yoshi, included in the games-themed MIST0919 artpack collection released six years ago!
Screenshot ORF Teletext 9.3.25 Nachrichten Leicht / leichter verständlich. (sd) Teletext gefällt mir noch immer! #Teletext
Mistodon: also served as a side with our newly-released Imbibe food-themed e-mag is a tasting flight of other delicious text and semigraphics art - here is a sampling of some tasty #teletext and #ASCIIart, an Xbin and a #BBCMicro high resolution graphics screen. Check it out at https://16colo.rs/mag/imbibe01
MIST0121/BLIPPYPIXEL-303
Mistigram: March 3rd is 3/03, so today technoheads celebrate the #Roland #TB303 Bass Line synthesizer. Here is one illustrated in #teletext by @blippypixel, as seen in the music-themed MIST0121 artpack collection released four years ago. Happy #303Day!
#303 #303Day #blippypixel #MIST0121 #Roland #synth #teletext #TR303
Mistigram: March 3rd is 3/03, so today technoheads celebrate the #Roland #TB303 Bass Line synthesizer. Here is one illustrated in #teletext by @pixelblip as seen in the music-themed MIST0121 artpack collection released four years ago. Happy #303day
Mistodon: This monochrome #teletext portrait of #WillSmith was drawn by @Horsenburger and included in the music-themed MIST0224 artpack collection released one year ago this month. Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !
Mistodon: here's a quick @horsenburger #teletext tribute to the late #GeneHackman (as Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle in 1971's #TheFrenchConnection) on the occasion of the sudden and unexpected death of everyone in his household announced today.
MIST0224/TELETEXTR-POINTER_SISTERS-AUTOMATIC
Mistigram: @teletextr adapted the cover art to the European release of the #PointerSisters’ 1983 single #Automatic to #teletext, in this screen from the music-themed MIST0224 artpack collection released one year ago. Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !
Mistodon: TeletextR adapted the cover art to the European release of the #PointerSisters' 1983 single #Automatic to #teletext, in this screen from the music-themed MIST0224 artpack collection released one year ago. Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !
Den 88-årige påven har fått stora mängder syre och blodtransfusioner efter att prover visat att hans hälsotillstånd kan kopplas till blodbrist.
Mistodon: this colourful and expressionistic #teletext portrait of #StevieWonder getting his groove on was drawn by @pixelblip and included in the music-themed MIST0224 artpack collection released one year ago. Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !
@adafruit *THX sound ramps up as slowly, character by character, the futuristic logo is revealed*