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by drsim
4981 days ago
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Teletext (Ceefax on Channel 4) had some games you could play 'through your TV!' :) Bamboozle was a general knowledge, multiple choice quiz. A hacker at heart I noticed the correct choice (red/green/yellow/blue) went to a different page number to the rest. So if you quickly flicked through all the colours until you found the different one you could blaze through with 100% correct. My sister was amazed when I could get every question right first time. |
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Some broadcasters even had "apps" that you could "run" through an assigned Teletext page and your phone (using DTMF), including home banking and silly games.
If you picked up a random page in a certain interval you would actually see anonymized account data being broadcast around...
(also check ETS 300 706 and 708 for more fun stuff about teletext)