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[โ€“] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Wow, I'd somehow never heard of teletext. What country did you use that in?

[โ€“] ZeDoTelhado@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

At the time I think in most western Europe teletext was a thing. Imagine you had this menu on the TV with pages that have graphics of the Atari 2600, and you access by inserting 3 digits codes on the page, seeks the page for you, and presents what's in there. This was, in a nutshell, teletext