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Being from the Netherlands originally, I know _their_ "Teletekst", not as much the BBC one. I couldn't possibly imagine it being of much use anymore. Similar to how the article started in past tense (before continuing in present tense):

> Before the Internet, if we wanted to read up-to-the-minute news or weather, we had Teletext.

I read this article from four days ago (link below, it's in Dutch) about how the Dutch broadcasting had recently made a significant investment to upgrade the old system, which was running on a local Windows 2003 machine/server, to a cloud-based solution that integrates with their other content-management system(s). It surprised me how many people still use this system. From the article: "the service still reaches a few million people per week through TV screens, and another 800,000 daily users via its app". (For reference, population of the Netherlands is 18 million.)

https://tweakers.net/reviews/11700/hoe-werkt-het-vernieuwde-...

parent sverhagen 2 years ago

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