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Very cool! I spent a lot of my youth navigating Teletext. Also lots of people doesn't seem to realize that Teletext is still alive and updated daily in some European countries like Spain.

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It's still hugely popular in the Netherlands, but somewhat ironically mostly viewed through the web or apps. I wrote a simple command line reader scraping the web version: https://github.com/sjmulder/nostt

Hang on, I'm Dutch, I know it still exists, but how you'd say, is it still "hugely popular"?

Personal observation, but also the app is #12 for news on the App Store and NOS themselves stated in 2017 that the service is popular:

https://www.spreekbuis.nl/npo-en-nos-over-de-toekomst-van-te...

(I’m not going to argue about where to drawn the line between ‘hugely’ or merely popular etc)

Anecdotal, but my dad uses it daily though the app. I love that such a limited canvas still has use.

It's not unlike twitter in that sense.

Still there in Finland. :) https://yle.fi/aihe/tekstitv

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