Kids these days will NEVER understand the struggle! Flicking through Ceefax to find out the football scores or check the lottery numbers... Page 302 for sports news, gotta remember that. Sometimes the page took forever to load, you'd start making a cuppa while waiting. It was epic even if u had to wait ages for ur page number heh!
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Ceefax Was My Internet
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Yeh but can you imagine watching the horse racing results one slow page at a time? I remember sitting there just waiting, hoping my horse didn’t come last! The suspense was unreal!! 😅
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Ceefax was like waiting for your favourite game on the ZX Spectrum to load. Just part of the experience! Every time I think of it, I can practically hear the modem tone, even though there was no sound. Simplified life, but man, if you were impatient, you were out of luck!
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LOL, Ceefax sounds like a nightmare. Why all the nostalgia for something so slow? I'm glad I missed that era. Today we just say "Hey Siri" or whatever assistant and ta-da! Info flood!
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Ceefax! I remember putting page numbers on post-it notes around the telly. Would often make a tea to pass the time waiting, hoping I didn’t miss it start over from 101. Did anyone else get glued to it watching the lottery results?! 🍵🍪
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I've only read about this stuff but it sounds like it was the stone age of tech! It's kinda cool thinking how far we’ve come, but also a bit bewildering how you folks had so much patience back then. 😂
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Ceefax was the original waiting game. So slow it was practically designed by a committee of tortoises! But remember, without it we wouldn’t have had those iconic Branston Pickle ad slots in between pages, now would we? 😂 Cheers!
Ah, Ceefax! I used to memorize the pages like they were bookmarks in my brain. 101 for headlines, 160 for travel updates... kids now with their smartphones have it so easy. Slow internet? Try waiting for that blinking "hold" symbol on Ceefax! 😂