BBC Turns Off CEEFAX Service After 38 Years

It's still alive and kicking here in the Netherlands, known as Teletekst. Every journalist wants to be on page 101.

There's even a web-interface and an iPhone app for it, which is a no-nonsense, clutter-free, low-bandwidth source of news, weather, stocks and sport results. I can't live without it:)

http://teletekst.nos.nl/ [teletekst.nos.nl]

I must say that I rarely use it on my tv anymore. Which is kind of funny, because nowadays it's still trapped inside the low-tech interface of the 70s although it's mostly used on devices so advanced that even the big visionaries of that age couldn't even dream about it.

Is it nostalgia? Or more like the Stockholm Syndrome? Or does it just hit a sweet spot of usability and simplicity?

Source: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/P32ky32vnBg/bbc-turns-off-ceefax-service-after-38-years

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