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Press the buttons on the device, or use your keyboard.
Press the buttons on the device, or use your keyboard.
Teletext rode inside the TV signal itself, in a few spare lines at the top of every picture that the screen never shows. Broadcasters sent the pages round in a loop. When you typed a page number, the set watched the stream and grabbed your page when it came by, which is why the page counter at the top raced while you waited.
British broadcasters started it in 1974, and it spread across Europe. A page was 40 characters by 24 rows in seven colours and black; pictures were built from blocks, each character cell split into a 2 by 3 grid.
The four coloured buttons on the remote jumped to linked pages. REVEAL showed the hidden answers on quiz pages. Subtitles for the hard of hearing were a teletext page too: in Britain, page 888.
Britain switched its last teletext services off with the end of analogue television in 2012. In some European countries teletext pages still go out every day.