Farewell Ceefax

KevIRL

Ceefax finishes up tonight at 23:30 with the switchover to digital on BBC Northern Ireland. Not strictly a soccer topic, but I', sure many will have fond memories of checking scores and news via page 302


Farewell old pal

Liam O

More of an Aertel man myself.

Pompey Magnus

KevIRL wrote: »

Ceefax finishes up tonight at 23:30 with the switchover to digital on BBC Northern Ireland. Not strictly a soccer topic, but I', sure many will have fond memories of checking scores and news via page 302


Farewell old pal

It was always a bad day when I would need to check aertel for latest scores, took about half an hour for them to update.

Ceefax was usually on the ball though.

GLaDOS

Thought they stopped doing football stories ages ago?

Pro. F

I thought Ceefax died ages ago. Is Aertel going to survive much longer does anybody know?

mike65

Sure BBCi does the same thing.

citytillidie

Pro. F wrote: »

I thought Ceefax died ages ago. Is Aertel going to survive much longer does anybody know?

Nope tonight when Northern Ireland switches to digital ceefax dies, aertel I say goes tomorrow on your tv when rte goes digital

Melion

324 for the premier league results wasn't it?

Mr.Crinklewood

Page has changed now.

Pro. F

mike65 wrote: »

Sure BBCi does the same thing.

I haven't bothered with digital tv.

I'll miss that 1980's looking internet substitute

Xavi6

Page 312 for all your gossip

Richard Hillman

Ah i spent many a match pre-internet access waiting on the scores to change for big matches. It was a fine service. I still use Aertel for the tv listings. Its simple and straightforward.

GBX

Melion wrote: »

324 for the premier league results wasn't it?

wasnt that the Premier League Table?

Mr.Crinklewood

Think 316 was the scores.

Thatsfootball

:)338 for the gossip column! A truly great service and as I posted on another thread:
"Also when the signal was going poor and it w&s r"a*ly ha(d to kn!w w£at was act?ally happ<nin%"

Good times

Mr.Crinklewood

Thatsfootball wrote: »

:)338 for the gossip column! A truly great service and as I posted on another thread:
"Also when the signal was going poor and it w&s r"a*ly ha(d to kn!w w£at was act?ally happ<nin%"

Good times

Worst thing was when the signal was poor on the latest score / results page.

Remember checking the team news every Friday.

Thatsfootball

Mr.Crinklewood wrote: »

Worst thing was when the signal was poor on the latest score / results page.

Remember checking the team news every Friday.

That was awful stuff!!

Man Utd *-( Arsenal
Chelsea &%$ Liverpool

keith16

Thatsfootball wrote: »

That was awful stuff!!

Man Utd *-( Arsenal
Chelsea &%$ Liverpool

Chelsea smash &% past a hapless Liverpool who grab a late consolation $.

wonderfullife

will be missed. the excitement of going beyond the results from 316 and hitting top goalscorers in each division. The dread when you didn't finish reading a subpage on 312 and have to wait 8 subpages to get it back. The clicking on to check sports yet being bold and brave hitting the yellow button to bring you to 500 entertainment. Or the stupidity of clicking red and seeing what depressing ill wind has struck the news.

For those of us born in the early 80s/late 70s ceefax was a gem. Just simple text on a screen but saved the hassle of having to wait for Final Score. For all the joys of the internet, even to this day if you want to check whats on the box the best way was 600 on ceefax or 180 on aertel. Sometimes simplicity is best.

Fare thee well ceefax, you were a valued friend.

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I remember playing pool with ceefax on in the corner and waiting for the scored to refresh, that's back before BSkyB and "soccer saturday". Sometimes they'd have the wrong team scoring, only for it to be amended the next time page 3/4 came round.

If the sub-page numbers suddenly went from 2 to 3, or 3 to 4, you knew someone had scored, just not on the page you were looking at.

The way Aertel used to put the Irish goalscorers in green.

On a side, kind of related, note. Does anyone remember the pink Herald that used to come out late on a Saturday, with all the match reports in it?

theoneeyedman

Farewell...great service in its day.

Was it Gary Linekar who while criticising Wimbledon said that you could only watch them play on ceefax

Xavi6

Des wrote: »

On a side, kind of related, note. Does anyone remember the pink Herald that used to come out late on a Saturday, with all the match reports in it?

Of course, used to hang around the shop after mass on a Saturday evening waiting for it to be delivered

mirwillbeback

Xavi6 wrote: »

Of course, used to hang around the shop after mass on a Saturday evening waiting for it to be delivered

my memory of that paper is sitting in Beschoffs on Westmoreland St in about 94, with a ten team accumulator. I'm reading out my teams in the bet, my mate is calling the results.

9 up, and Arbroath let me down, conceding a 94th minute equalizer.

Nearly choked on my cod. :eek:

Kerrydude1981

I remember when my mate's father got the multi channel in,he had BBC 1 and 2,Saturday afternoons used be spent at their house Ceefax on the telly checking the scores of the matches Ceefax used be faster then Aertel for putting up scores and at that time it used show the scorers as well.

RIP Ceefax

LuckyLloyd

Pre Internet, Ceefax really was the quickest way to source information. I suppose you have to be of a certain age range to have used it heavily back in the day - goodnight sweet prince.

Morzadec

wonderfullife wrote: »

will be missed. the excitement of going beyond the results from 316 and hitting top goalscorers in each division. The dread when you didn't finish reading a subpage on 312 and have to wait 8 subpages to get it back. The clicking on to check sports yet being bold and brave hitting the yellow button to bring you to 500 entertainment. Or the stupidity of clicking red and seeing what depressing ill wind has struck the news.

For those of us born in the early 80s/late 70s ceefax was a gem. Just simple text on a screen but saved the hassle of having to wait for Final Score. For all the joys of the internet, even to this day if you want to check whats on the box the best way was 600 on ceefax or 180 on aertel. Sometimes simplicity is best.

Fare thee well ceefax, you were a valued friend.

I was born in the late 80s and I was partial to a bit of Ceefax too! When I was a teenager, every day after school I'd be straight onto 302. And the gossip column (I think it was 338?) was great too

death1234567

Some of the best games of football I ever watched were on ceefax. Sure I couldn't see the players, the pitch or the ball but in my mind the 3-2 wins went down in folklore.

citytillidie

For what is happening to Aertel

http://www.rte.ie/aertel//desktopxhtml/301-1.html

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Errortel tbh

Stupid service that gives the incorrect scores.

I left Tolka park one night thinking Bohs had won a match, when they'd lost.

Skid

Thatsfootball wrote: »

:)338 for the gossip column! A truly great service and as I posted on another thread:
"Also when the signal was going poor and it w&s r"a*ly ha(d to kn!w w£at was act?ally happ<nin%"

Good times

I remember reading a page during Euro 2000 which came up mostly garbled except for the last line which said 'Maradona could do with an Orange'

We were completely baffled by this - was Diego suffering a severe Vitamin C deficency? Was it a subtle putdown of the great man? We kept checking for hours until the signal improved and all was revealed

Speaking ahead of the Uefa executive committee meeting, Platini said that Zidane was the only member of the 1998 World Cup winning side, who had improved since then.

"The others haven't. They are getting the benefits of Zizou's aura," said Platini.

"Zidane does some extraordinary things, it's true. But you have to put everything in context. What Zidane does with a ball, Maradona could do with an orange," he added.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/euro2000/teams/france/814529.stm

Rekop dog

Thatsfootball wrote: »

:)338 for the gossip column! A truly great service and as I posted on another thread:
"Also when the signal was going poor and it w&s r"a*ly ha(d to kn!w w£at was act?ally happ<nin%"

Good times

LOL.

The gossip column used to go into overdrive during the transfer windows, you'd have about 15 pages to go through. Hated when it use to open on say page 6/15 and you had to wait an age until it got around to the juicy stuff on pages 1-3.

KevIRL

citytillidie wrote: »

For what is happening to Aertel

http://www.rte.ie/aertel//desktopxhtml/301-1.html

Glad to see its still going, even though as Des said it can be often incorrect. Can be handy for getting some GAA scores, early pre-season competition, and Rackard/Ring/Meagher cups in particular

Mr.Nice Guy

It will be missed. I think 356 was the letters page. I remember being delighted seeing one of my letters appear on it once.

Always page 302 to start. then over to Channel 4 for some Digitister. Good times.

noodler

Liam O wrote: »

More of an Aertel man myself.

Did you find the 10 minute delay added to the excitement?

Channel 4 was good with their video games stuff. It's a different world now.

jester77

I lived on this back in the day, was a great service. Not sure if it was the model of TV we had, but I remember it being possible to have a little ceefax ticker on the TV so you could watch the TV programme and the ticker would update when a team scored. I think you had to go into the see through mode, was a great feature.