420K views · 4.2K reactions | #OnThisDay 1974: CEEFAX - the world's first teletext service - went live, with a whopping 30 pages of information at your fingertips. In 1972, BBC science correspondent David Wilson chatted to project lead Stanley Edwardson about this newfangled interactive service, and got a sneak peak at a CEEFAX prototype. | BBC Archive | Facebook

68K views · 1.6K reactions | #OnThisDay 1975: This is Ceefax took a look behind the scenes of everybody's soon-to-be favourite teletext information service. | BBC Archive | Facebook

52K views · 961 reactions | #OnThisDay 1983: Want to know what was on TV 35 years ago tomorrow? Of course you do. Here's your answer, courtesy of Ceefax. Alternatively, you could always check using the wonderful @bbcgenome resource: https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/ | BBC Archive | Facebook

4.3K views · 100 reactions | #OTD 1976: Ceefax and its compatible commercial TV equivalent, ORACLE, were given a formal go-ahead by the government | BBC Archive | Facebook