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Dan Farrimond
@illarterate.bsky.social
📺 teletextfreak. Fanatique télématique.

📧 HELLO (at) TELETEXTART (dot) CO (dot) UK
(Not taking on paid projects for now.)

🌐 teletextart.co.uk
🌐 danfarrimond.co.uk

💁 Header photo: @megawayned.bsky.social
🖼️ Profile pic: @mrbiffo.bsky.social
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Today I fell on the rabbit hole of Teletext, an outdate way to trasmited information for televisions, common on Europe before internet

I'm facinate for the tech solutions people create before the digital era and I loved the aesthetic and the art made with teletext <3

#oldtech
December 17, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Appa ist das heutige Türchen im Teletext-Adventskalender beim finnischen Sender YLE: yle.fi/aihe/tekstit...
December 12, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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New home for Muttlee, the Multi User #TeleText Live Editing Environment. www.xenoxxx.com/muttlee/?ser...
Muttlee
www.xenoxxx.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:20 PM
December 13, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Gespot: In de Kerstaflevering 2025 van NOS "Rondje binnenhof" heeft de presentator de nieuwste NOS-Teletekst-trui aan en geeft er ook een korte uitleg bij: youtu.be/ylHJyohLZNI?...

#nostrui #ikwilookeenteletexttrui
December 11, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Seemed like an appropriate t-shirt for my official last day at the BBC.
December 12, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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It's still a work in progress, but seems stable enough for "public beta", so by popular demand here's a standalone version of the parametric clock generator I recently added to my online teletext viewer:
zxnet.co.uk/clock/#templ...
December 6, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Mistigram: LDA drew this anguished ##snowman, melting in unimaginable agony, for this date in last year's ADVENT24 ##ANSIart ##AdventCalendar, whose forked release as a BBS door is here demonstrated live on Martin Kazmaier's Shurato's Heavenly Sphere BBS at shsbbs.net
December 7, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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When a big chunk of internet infrastructure fails, it should automatically switch to pages from Ceefax
holidays full index offers 402 city breaks 403 europe specials '88 france paris spain ibiza italy naples germany berlin 410
ALT: holidays full index offers 402 city breaks 403 europe specials '88 france paris spain ibiza italy naples germany berlin 410
media.tenor.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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MUTA SOLO
Raquel Meyers, 6
Inattention (2019-2020)
PART II
Museum of #Teletext Art @yle
#tekstitv Page 805
yle.fi/aihe/tekstit...
December 3, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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I feel like we lost a bit of magic the day CEFAX/Teletext was switched off.

I wonder if there it scope for a simpler version of the internet which has the feel of CEFAX, but with more social features.
a black and white pixel art of a person 's face with a yellow eye
ALT: a black and white pixel art of a person 's face with a yellow eye
media.tenor.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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Looks like Teletext “Sixels” were accepted into the Unicode Standard in 2019…
Teletext graphics characters among those added to Unicode
A proposal to add teletext graphics characters to the Universal Coded Character Set has been accepted by the Unicode Consortium. A total of 214 characters used by legacy computers, including teletext’...
teletextart.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Mistigram: the fifth and final season of Netflix's #StrangerThings begins unfolding starting today, celebrated with this #teletext screen by Uglifruit, included in last month's spooky MIST1025 artpack collection.
November 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Sinterklaas #teletext #teletekst artwork for the Dutch TV station TV West.
November 30, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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MUTA SOLO
Raquel Meyers, 6
Inattention (2019-2020)
PART I
Museum of #Teletext Art @yle
#tekstitv Page 805
yle.fi/aihe/tekstit...
December 1, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Mistigram: this fauvist portrait of ##MrZero, the announcer from the ##FZero racing games, was drawn by @illarterate.bsky.social and won 1st place in the Nova 2024 demoparty's ##Teletext compo. It was also included a year ago in the MIST-30 30th anniversary celebration artpack collection.
December 1, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Ever fancied making your own Ceefax pages? Latest version of my #teletext editor is at github.com/peterkvt80/w...
Release Fixed Explorer file open not working · peterkvt80/wxted
Opening a tti file in Explorer would cause wxTED to allocate all the memory until Windows crashed. Fixed by checking file open status and switching to smart pointers.
github.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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I'm getting tired of saying this, but in times of global "someone else's computer" outages, Ceefax remains online from a noisy server in someone's attic.

nmsceefax.co.uk
NMS Ceefax
An up-to-date version of the BBC's teletext service, Ceefax.
Nmsceefax.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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I’ve added more than 1,000 new (well, old technically) letters from six months worth of teletext to the Zine Museum! Come check it out: zinemuseum.co.uk/news
News
Recent news about The Mega-Zine Museum.
zinemuseum.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Found a big bug in my #teletext editor. It's Guru meditation time.
November 22, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Happy Max Headroom Day, nerrrrddds!

This #teletext art is from 2019 but I never posted it... until now. #pixelart #MaxHeadroomDay #MaxHeadroom #ceefax #1bit
November 22, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Whoa, what is thisss
November 20, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Mistigram: as we approach the sweet spot between Halloween and Christmas, this silhouetted #teletext screen by @horsenburger.bsky.social, depicting a moment in #theNightmareBeforeChristmas between Sally and #JackSkellington (on a spooky hill that is actually #OogieBoogie) straddles both realms.
November 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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A (horrible) alternate reality, inspired by yesterday.
#Cloudflare #Teletext #TeletextArt #Art
November 19, 2025 at 10:30 AM