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The world's first TV text service - the BBC's Ceefax - is 30 today.
My Teletext memories? Unscrambling what at first glance appeared to be gibberish, due to poor reception of Slovenian and Croatian channels in the corner of North-East Italy where I was born (and to my poor understanding of Slovene and Croatian), to browse through TV listings and watch English speaking productions in English.
I used to go through so much trouble because I could not stand sitting through the Italian-dubbed versions and lip-read to try and understand what was really said in the original version (which, believe you me, is quite a challenge with cartoons).
You too can partake in a slice of my past by accessing a fully-functioning teletext service on the HRT website. Here are some highlights for the next couple of days - no prize for guessing what they are:
- Tko želi biti miljunaš?, kviz (HRT1, četvrtak, 20:05)
- Obitelj Soprano, serija (HRT1, petak, 22:20)
- Simpsoni, humoristična serija (HRT2, subota, 23:00)