LexiNov 19
Jamie Nemeth

A (horrible) alternate reality, inspired by yesterday.

#Cloudflare #Teletext #TeletextArt #Art

Nov 19 at 10:38amWeb
Show threadMartin HaſeneyerNov 19
@JamieNemeth Go to page 404 to prove you're human.
Show threaditgrrl Nov 19
@mhaseneyer @JamieNemeth may I suggest P418 instead…? 🫖
Show threadErpelNov 19
@JamieNemeth Welcome to my "internet" experience before we had internet at home in the early 2000s
Show threadJamie NemethNov 19

@Erpel Ironically, for me, teletext at home came years after internet at home, but that's only because we never managed to get a teletext TV until it was all tailing off (at least here in the UK).

I used to practically wear out remotes by browsing teletext on holiday / at friends' and relatives' houses. Loved it. Meant it became a rare treat in my nostalgic memories, as I never had a chance to take it for granted.

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Show threadBeesjeNov 19
@snowyfox ?
Show threadAthena L.M.Nov 19
@anarchokat161 This is a conventional old-style "CWed boost". The empty post with a CW can be boosted and the person's followers can then open it and read the post it was a reply to. With the phase-in of quote posts on Mastodon this style is becoming rarer.
Show threadFurbland's Very Cool Mastodon™Nov 19
@JamieNemeth side note: you might like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8OUAiWH_jc
Pages from Ceefax

News and information from Ceefax with music Please note this stream *is not* interactive in any way... Commenting page numbers won't select things unfortunat...

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Show threadJamie NemethNov 19
@GroupNebula563 Oh, I do 😉
Show threadClassics ReaderNov 19

@JamieNemeth Same thing happened when I was trying to get to this web site yesterday (Atlanta Cloudflare)

https://libquotes.com/

Stuff happens, I guess

https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/

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Show threadRay McCarthyNov 19
@JamieNemeth
There are Broadcaster "OTT" services on so called "Smart TVs".
The smart human doesn't give the TV a WiFi password or ethernet cable. They report what TV channel and even any HDMI info, if available, if using an external source. As well as the obvious app usage etc. To multiple destinations. Mostly can't be disabled. Some even room sound or video.
Maybe some German stations still have Teletext on Digital TV.
At least 3 broadcast protocols replaced teletext on Digital.
Show threadZack WhittakerNov 19
@JamieNemeth this hit me right in the nostalgics.
Show threadLudwig VielfrassNov 19
@zackwhittaker @JamieNemeth me too, and I’m an American who never had Teletext! But I was an electronics nerd when I was a kid.
Show threadKelNov 19
@JamieNemeth was fortunate enough to grow up with the tail end of ceefax, shame it shut down. though i think theres a similar service in switzerland still, shame i cant pick up any channels out here
Show threadCONFIG.SYS: LOADHIGHNov 20
@asokel @JamieNemeth There's at least one Swiss channel that has an online browser of their teletext: https://www.teletext.ch/SRF1/100
TELETEXT

Show threadKelNov 20
@loadhigh @JamieNemeth ive gotta see if the array pc can even load that though
Show threadJamie NemethNov 20

@asokel @loadhigh

There's also...well...Ceefax 😊
https://nmsceefax.co.uk/

Several modern-day hobbyist services available here:
https://zxnet.co.uk/teletext/viewer/

And mine has a web viewer:
https://www.jamienemeth.co.uk/teletext/viewer/?minitv

NMS Ceefax

An up-to-date version of the BBC's teletext service, Ceefax.

NMS
Show threadKelNov 20
@JamieNemeth @loadhigh oh, that's interesting. will have to see if they even load on the array pc. this thing has like webscope 5 on it
Show threadKelNov 20
@JamieNemeth @loadhigh yep i dont think this will be loading any modern pages
Show threadmathewNov 20
@JamieNemeth Looks like your site has a CORS bug.
Show threadJamie NemethNov 20

@mathew Might have been a more obvious issue than that...decided to fiddle with the server, and it was down for a bit.

Is it working now?

Show threadmathewNov 20

@JamieNemeth Yes, all working now.

Sometimes I get weird fantasies about creating a new distributed TCP/IP Teletext network. (I built a distributed Teletext system in the 80s on my school’s BBC Micro LAN.)

Show threadJamie NemethNov 20

@mathew Cheers for letting me know. I was looking up CORS-header stuff just in case, as it's not something I've intentionally implemented yet, but it was far more likely all the stuff I installed as an experiment - at the unwisest time, given the popularity of my Mastodon post 🤣 - that slowed my server to a crawl, to the point where it was tough for me to even get a stable enough SSH terminal connection on the LAN to uninstall it again 🤣

But it all seems stable again now.

Show threadJamie NemethNov 20

@mathew And...your fantasy, or something close to it, might already be reality...

If you have a Raspberry Pi, the idea of VBIT2 is that it grabs teletext services (in TTI format) from a Git or SVN repository, and produces signals in the VBI to allow you to view it on your teletext-compatible TV (or in-vision with VBIT-IV for a non-teletext TV/monitor).

Any changes pushed to the service appear on all internet-connected Pis a few minutes later.

https://github.com/peterkvt80/vbit2

GitHub - peterkvt80/vbit2: Teletext streaming. Generates a T42 teletext stream from teletext pages. This can be used with inserter hardware or a Raspberry Pi to generate a video signal that teletext TVs can decode and display. It can also be used with vbit-iv to generate in-vision teletext on a Linux PC or Raspberry Pi.

Teletext streaming. Generates a T42 teletext stream from teletext pages. This can be used with inserter hardware or a Raspberry Pi to generate a video signal that teletext TVs can decode and displa...

GitHub
Show threadloebasNov 22

@JamieNemeth @asokel @loadhigh in the netherlands we have teletekst.nl, which you can also view via ssh.

Just make an ssh connection to teletekst.nl. any user/password

Show threadellisNov 19
@JamieNemeth now i need https://github.com/fabianswebworld/ttxweb but in the other direction
GitHub - fabianswebworld/ttxweb: ttxweb - Teletext-to-HTML Generator: Generates beautiful and accessible HTML from Teletext pages (e.g. EP1 file format).

ttxweb - Teletext-to-HTML Generator: Generates beautiful and accessible HTML from Teletext pages (e.g. EP1 file format). - fabianswebworld/ttxweb

GitHub
Show threadJamie NemethNov 19

@ellis That would be amazing!

I think it'd almost certainly need to be application-specific, going the other direction, though.

NMS Ceefax uses code behind the scenes to parse current BBC news, weather, etc. into teletext format:
https://nmsceefax.co.uk/

@zxguesser has completed a Bluesky version of the Twitter-parsing code, and is working on a Mastodon one:
https://toot.wales/@zxguesser@oldbytes.space/113975176006167888

NMS Ceefax

An up-to-date version of the BBC's teletext service, Ceefax.

NMS
Show threadZXGuesserNov 19
@JamieNemeth @ellis oh dear, I might have given a false sense of "actually working on coding something" there. 😆
Show threadJamie NemethNov 19
@zxguesser @ellis Yes, but I do that...and then randomly, one day, out of nowhere, after months of mulling...*furious coding*...something pops out 😛
Show threadZXGuesserNov 19
@JamieNemeth @ellis I realised quickly that mastodon’s lack of consistent (and generally gigantic) toot length makes it impractical.
I also suspect that scraping up people's posts would not go down well here either 😅
Show threadellisNov 19
@zxguesser @JamieNemeth activitypub to teletext​​
Show threadOxyNov 19
@JamieNemeth tbh, I miss teletext
Show threadvlakicasNov 19
@JamieNemeth London Cloudflare Error
Cardiff Fediverse Working
Edinburgh XMPP Working...
and Teletext still working
;)
Show threadMaya Saura Nov 19
@JamieNemeth in the last years of analog television, france tv teletext pages were autogenerated from their website, so it would be totally possible!
Show threadSimon ZerafaNov 20

@JamieNemeth

This should give anyone with memories of Teletext a few flashbacks 😲🤦‍♂️

Show threadDubious BlurNov 20
@JamieNemeth @simonzerafa suddenly I am convinced HTTP error pages should all be in MODE 7. (Much like I was delighted by the Jetbrains website using TUI conventions–colour and typeface–for their cookie dialogue.)
Show threadGiacinto BocciaNov 20
@JamieNemeth
I can confirm that nor @Televideo_bot nor the Italian Teletext service that it repeats, experienced any anomaly.
Show threadAtomic FoxNov 20

@JamieNemeth

Ceefax via Clownflare?

Show threadChief Headpat OfficerNov 22
@JamieNemeth dies of old age
Show threadKevin Karhan Nov 22

@JamieNemeth #ClownFlare is just value-removing bullshit.

Show threadNerdNextDoor Nov 22
@JamieNemeth CEEFAX WHAT DID THEY DO TO YOU?!
Show thread♾️ WaterNov 22
@JamieNemeth Seeing teletext again reminds me of this screenshot I made a few years ago. Yes it's real.
Below the title: Art between teletext and blockchain.