Eleven things we loved about Teletext

We spent literally hours each week playing daily quiz game Bamboozle and its sport edition Ten to One hosted by Bamber Boozler and Brian Boozler respectively. Get a question wrong though and you would be sent packing back to the start of the quiz. Sometimes one of Bamber's two kids Buster and Bonnie, or his wife, Bambette, would be there to ask the questions.

Everyone knew the best way of getting the football headlines (page 302!) or sport in general was via Ceefax. If you weren't at the game and it wasn't on telly, you could do worse than listening to the radio whilst having the team names and scorers displayed in front of you. The graphically-challenged pages were also a goldmine for the latest transfer gossip and goings-on.

If you were extra lucky, you'ld have enough time to read your star sign before the page changed!

As if by magic, Teletext had the ability to make words appear on the screen as they were spoken. Aimed at the deaf or hard of hearing, Ceefax subtitles were introduced in 1975 and proved extremely popular. Different colours of text were used to denote who was speaking - it's hard now to appreciate just how groundbreaking this once was!

Fancied a week's break away with the family to Butlins? Teletext could be used to book your summer holiday and the service was flexible enough to allow travel companies to easily adjust their prices in line with demand.

Since it could be updated very quickly, you'ld have been hard-pressed to find a better weather forecast solution than Teletext. Just like today though, its reliability, was a different matter entirely...

Fastext buttons were the coloured buttons on your remote control and enabled you to navigate to certain pages or choose from a set range of options at the click of a button - very handy and essential for completing a Bamboozle quiz!

Like a concise Radio Times, Ceefax and Teletext offered us full programme listings for each television channel from morning until close - yes, kids, back in the day even TV channels had a bedtime! Who could forget switching on the telly in the wee hours only to be greeted by a Teletext ad accompanied by what can only be described as elevator music?

There were a variety of different 'magazines' available on Teletext covering everything from music and games to movies and home computing. Planet Sound (pictured) was jam-packed with news, reviews, gig listings, the UK top 40 and even fans' letters - move over NME!

We don't recall a single morning before starting school that the Kids section wasn't accessed. Alongside a bowl of Frosties, it was a daily ritual. Turner the Worm's classic comic strip and Glug's horrendously bad jokes were the obvious highlights.

Just look at all that free content! Ceefax and Teletext were veritable oracles of information in an era before the internet became a 'thing'. And, depending on your signal strength, the service was every bit as fast, if not faster, than the modern-day 'red button'.