Some developers working at the NOS (Dutch Broadcasting Foundation) as hobby project made it possible recently to view teletext through SSH.
ssh teletekst.nl
Very cool. Found the web version also: https://nos.nl/teletekst
In Switzerland, Teletext somehow proved popular enough you can now access the content (with the same nostalgic look and feel, modulo some advertising) online and on a mobile app.
> somehow proved popular enough
In my view Teletext has a great property: A single page is short. Thus news articles must be compact and straight to the point. Unlike the text here, which I can fill with fluff, unrelated side remarks and repetition, a teletext author has to find the essence in the news and focus. That makes scanning Teletext news quick while giving a good view on what is "important" (by the standards of that broadcaster)
Love this. Many years ago I provided Teletext as a Mac OS X Dashboard Widget using content provided free of charge by a friendly Dutch guy who extracted it from the broadcast signal using some special hardware. Good times.
Same in Italy: https://www.televideo.rai.it
Your link doesn't work for me. Try this: https://www.televideo.rai.it/televideo/pub/index.jsp
By the way, an interesting book called "La TV da sfogliare. 1984-2024. 40 anni di Televideo" by Guido Barlozzetti came out this year.
It's super interesting (if you speak Italian and) if you're curious about the history of the Italian teletext.
Same in Austria: https://teletext.orf.at/channel/orf1/page/100/1
I bought my first Closed Captioning device in 1976. PBS stations in selected cities were using NTSC Line 21/22 for all their captioning and one-way tele-texbtbox needs (CC2/TEXT).
Also Sacramento NBC 3 started delivering closed-captioning in 1977.
FCC didn’t standardize until 1980.
I still have the decoder box.
Bamboozle!
First form of the Color Computer, not the original TRS-80, apparently.
>stock quotes and news
Subtitles at page 888 too, where the subs could be overlaid on top of a movie instead of the full TTXT page.