Here is some news to delight Ceefax fans, the iconic TV text service has been revived.
Tech wizard and coder Nathan Dane launched a website re-creating the pages of news, sport, weather and finance that adorned our screens from 1974 to 2012.
The 20-year-old uses live data from the BBC and converts it into how Ceefax looked, without the usual online images, ads and videos.
Nathan said: “It’s as close a re-creation as I can make it. I do find it really useful myself.
“If I’m in work eating my lunch I can stick it on and get up to date.
“You’re not flicking about between websites, you have the information you need on a page but without all the distraction.”
But his retro NMS Ceefax site today crashed as nostalgic Brits clicked on to catch a glimpse of the past.
A message read: “We’re under unprecedented load right now.”
Those who did view it were full of praise. Users called the site “glorious” and “brilliant”, while one declared: “Ceefax is back.”
Nathan, of Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh, runs the service from his home.
Nathan added: “We had Ceefax until 2012, which is probably the only reason I remember it.
“I have a great interest in all the old broadcast TV-type stuff. It’s really the service that I remember looking through when I was wee.”
Northern Ireland was the last UK region to lose Ceefax.
