{"id":4261,"date":"2022-01-05T15:38:09","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T14:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/05\/text-appeal-ceefax-recreated-by-20-year-old-northern-irish-man\/"},"modified":"2022-01-05T15:38:09","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T14:38:09","slug":"text-appeal-ceefax-recreated-by-20-year-old-northern-irish-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/05\/text-appeal-ceefax-recreated-by-20-year-old-northern-irish-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Text appeal: Ceefax recreated by 20-year-old Northern Irish man"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nathan Dane spent six years honing his version of the BBC\u2019s defunct text-based information service<\/p>\n

If you find news websites too overwhelming, too fast and too full of distractions then this might be the solution: a recreation of the BBC\u2019s Ceefax service featuring up-to-date headlines, an accurate weather map and the latest stock market prices.<\/p>\n

Nathan Dane, 20, has spent the last six years building a simulation of the BBC\u2019s defunct text-based information service<\/a>. It takes in data from the BBC\u2019s existing website and repurposes it in the distinctively blocky font that was ubiquitous on television sets during the 1980s and 1990s.<\/p>\n

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\nNathan Dane spent six years honing his version of the BBC\u2019s defunct text-based information service
\nIf you find news websites too overwhelming, too fast and too full of distractions then this might be the solution: a recreation of the BBC\u2019s Ceefax service featuring up-to-date headlines, an accurate weather map and the latest stock market prices.
\nNathan Dane, 20, has spent the last six years building a simulation of the BBC\u2019s defunct text-based information service. It takes in data from the BBC\u2019s existing website and repurposes it in the distinctively blocky font that was ubiquitous on television sets during the 1980s and 1990s. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nathan Dane spent six years honing his version of the BBC\u2019s defunct text-based information service If you find news websites too overwhelming, too fast and too full of distractions then this might be the solution: a recreation of the BBC\u2019s Ceefax service featuring up-to-date headlines, an accurate weather map and the latest stock market prices. …<\/p>\n

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