{"id":2151,"date":"2018-07-24T14:28:09","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T13:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.domesday86.com\/?page_id=2151"},"modified":"2018-07-24T14:30:25","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T13:30:25","slug":"domesday-on-teletext","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.domesday86.com\/?page_id=2151","title":{"rendered":"Domesday on Teletext"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC Ceefax service was launched by the BBC in September 1974 and continued to run as a teletext based information service until October 2012.\u00a0 During 1985 as the Domesday project was being created, the BBC used the Ceefax service to advertise various aspects of the project such as the photographic competitions, locations for the surrogate walks and so on.<\/p>\n<p>The following Ceefax screenshots were kindly supplied by Jason Robertson from the archive of recovered Teletext pages available from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uniquecodeanddata.co.uk\/teletext76\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this link<\/a>.\u00a0 The screenshots below are those from the archive containing the word 'Domesday'.<\/p>\n<h1>National Photo Competition<\/h1>\n<p>The National Photo Competition was used to gather photographs used on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.domesday86.com\/?page_id=49\">Domesday Community disc<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2152\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2152\" style=\"width: 573px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2152\" src=\"https:\/\/www.domesday86.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/ttx19850529_p180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"573\" height=\"500\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2152\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teletext Page 180 from BBC Ceefax May 1985<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2158\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2158\" style=\"width: 573px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2158\" src=\"https:\/\/www.domesday86.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/ttx19850529_p187-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"573\" height=\"500\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2158\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teletext Page 187 from BBC Ceefax May 1985<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>Surrogate Journey locations<\/h1>\n<p>Ceefax was used to request submissions for the locations for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.domesday86.com\/?page_id=811\">surrogate walks<\/a> found on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.domesday86.com\/?page_id=46\">National disc<\/a> (the name was changed from 'Surrogate Journey' to 'Surrogate Walk' before the disc was published):<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2153\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2153\" style=\"width: 573px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2153\" src=\"https:\/\/www.domesday86.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/ttx19850529_p185-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"573\" height=\"500\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2153\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teletext Page 185-1 from BBC Ceefax Aug 1985<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2154\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2154\" style=\"width: 573px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2154\" src=\"https:\/\/www.domesday86.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/ttx19850829_p185-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"573\" height=\"500\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2154\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teletext Page 185-2 from BBC Ceefax Aug 1985<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Additional requests for the National Photographic Competition (see above) was also included in this section:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2161\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2161\" style=\"width: 573px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2161\" src=\"https:\/\/www.domesday86.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/ttx19850829_p185-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"573\" height=\"500\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2161\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teletext Page 185-3 from BBC Ceefax Aug 1985<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>Telesoftware<\/h1>\n<p>Acorn computers (such as the BBC Micro and Master) could be fitted with a Teletext adaptor that allowed the user to download software via the Teletext service; this service was termed 'Telesoftware'.\u00a0 The BBC made several Domesday related applications available from Ceefax:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2185\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2185\" style=\"width: 573px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2185\" src=\"https:\/\/www.domesday86.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/ttx19850529_p703.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"573\" height=\"500\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2185\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teletext Page 703 from BBC Ceefax May 1985<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC Ceefax service was launched by the BBC in September 1974 and continued to run as a teletext based information service until October 2012.\u00a0 During 1985 as the Domesday project was being created, the BBC used the Ceefax service to advertise various aspects of the project such as the photographic competitions, locations for the surrogate walks and so on. <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.domesday86.com\/?page_id=2151\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Domesday on Teletext<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2152,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2151","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.domesday86.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.domesday86.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.domesday86.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.domesday86.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.domesday86.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2151"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.domesday86.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2325,"href":"https:\/\/www.domesday86.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2151\/revisions\/2325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.domesday86.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.domesday86.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}