Ceefax at 40: Could you write an 80-word match report?

SweX · Sep 23, 2014

Tuesday marks 40 years since the introduction of the dearly departed Ceefax, the world's first teletext service, and to celebrate the anniversary of the launch we want BBC Sport readers to write their own Ceefax match reports.

While newspaper and website stories can run to hundreds or even thousands of words of eloquent prose, Ceefax - which was finally shut down a couple of years ago - provided journalists with a very different challenge - only four paragraphs, 80 words and the headline had to be exactly 33 characters.
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http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/29242558

Rasheed187 · Sep 24, 2014

I've used Teletext till a couple of years ago when I bought a DVR with Guide+. It's kinda sad that there was never really a good replacement for it. In Holland they are now trying to promote HbbTV, I hope it will take off.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guide_Plus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_Broadcast_Broadband_TV

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