Ceefax

With the analogue switch over happening in the UK, the analogue text service Ceefax will soon disappear. Introduced in 1976, it is a system that I grew up with. In the days before internet and 24 hour news it was the place to get up to the minute sports results or news stories. The page numbers would be ingrained in your mind.

But it has had it's time, more immediate forms of finding things out have dominated the last 15 years. It is the end of an era though, but will the internet suffer a similar fate to one day be replaced by something more convenient and more suited to the task? It is more likely to evolve into that thing rather than be replaced by it - unless excessive regulation or government controls come in to stifle it.