[nanoxide]

Teletext is still very much alive in Germany, pretty much every channel offers it. In fact, I use it most days to quickly check if there are any interesting headlines to follow up online, or for sports results. It's funny that it is frequently faster and easier to navigate than most enshittified news websites.

[Cthulhu_]

Same in the Netherlands, but it's updated to the modern age with a website / emulator [0] and app [1], both appropriately styled.

[0] https://nos.nl/teletekst

[1] https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/nos-teletekst/id289246732

[tobwen]

It was even crazier in Germany! In 2000, the television station NBC received a radio license for RadioMP3. They broadcasted the charts and entire albums (with covers) via teletext, which could be legally recorded at home. Bit rate 128 kbit/s - simply with a TV capture card. The public broadcaster also transmitted software via “VideoDAT” during its ComputerClub program. However, this required special hardware.

[mcraiha]

Same in Finland. There is a one guy running the show nowadays. https://yle.fi/a/3-12131551 (article only in Finnish)

[andrepd]

I have seen more than one old geezer in NS trains reading the news on the Teletext app on the smartphone :)

Maybe they're into something?

[jamesfinlayson]

At a company I used to work at there was a service that scraped the teletext XML to get some numbers as a second source to double check what was scraped off a website.