If you get this joke, then you’re exceptionally geeky about at least two different things…

#SteelyDan #Prestel #Ceefax #Geekery

I've been scanning some old floppies I bought off eBay over a decade ago, looking for #teletext or #Prestel frames. I found deleted files. I wasn't expecting this... seems sexting was alive and well 40 years ago. The kids these days think they invented everything..

Names & mailbox numbers(which are telephone numbers) censored because it's possible these people are still alive. My pretty rendering isn't working yet, so you only get the text.

I worked in a government Press Office and we showcased #Prestel to the international media during the 1979 Rhodesia Constitutional Conference.

I remember many journalists were gob-smacked by it and more interested in that then the moments leading up to the Lancaster House Agreement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mipluyeX4Gs

I had #Prestel set up in my office and when visitors came by, especially from overseas, they were simply amazed by it.

Now, it seems quite antiquated compared to what one can do these days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mipluyeX4Gs

BT Archives have added a lot more video content since the last time I checked, including this 1979 “radio rentals” film about #prestel

https://bt.kuluvalley.com/view/njwVo8U5syR

It’s 22mins long, and worth a look if you haven’t already seen it!

@marrold @glasstty

I have removed all contact forms from my viewdata/teletext websites. They have always attracted the occasional spam message, but a significant ramping up of messages recently now makes them more of a liability than a benefit now. Nearly 100 spam messages in the last ten days. My email address is still there if people do want to write. Or contact me on here :)

#spam #Viewdata #Prestel #teletext