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Old October 24th 12, 10:58 AM posted to uk.sci.weather
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Default Rip ceefax - a sad day...

In article ,
Scott W writes:
...For anyone who remembers teletext as the only source of
weather info outside the tv and radio broadcasts and newspapers

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20032882


Our pre-teletext TV gave us such noble service that we didn't replace it
till about 2005, so I missed out on the golden age of teletext. It
wasn't the ability to receive the teletext weather forecasts that I
regretted so much as the cricket scores. You couldn't get up-to-date
scores on the web till about 1997 or 1998.
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John Hall

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