Farewell to Aertel // Teletext Sofa Club with Nathan Dane and Jason Robertson

Nathan Dane and Jason Robertson join Dan to celebrate the life of Ireland’s premier teletext service Aertel, which sadly bit the digital dust this afternoon. The Teletext Archaeologist is on hand to browse through some old captures of Aertel and other Irish services, and Nathan Dane talks about potential new teletext revivals.

Discord invite: https://discord.com/invite/DKnvNnj
Discord room: https://discord.com/channels/514954277836292106/695971015318306928

Timecodes
0:00 Intro to an Aertel celebration
2:25 How Aertel reported The End with Music by Mr Nissness
10:04 The story of Aertel’s closure
14:40 (Nathan & Whiskers arrive) Nathan’s retro monitor
18:30 Aertel: the forgotten service?
32:40 The tech intricacies of Pages From Aertel
38:49 (Jason arrives) Formal intro / Aertel 1986 test transmissions
48:30 Aertel indexes 1988-2023
57:16 Wim’s Farewell Aertel artwork
1:01:35 90-page carousels! An apocryphal story?!
1:06:22 Satisfying Aertel headlines / Watching the Aertel ghost service LIVE
1:23:25 Call for entries: forthcoming art projects
1:26:40 Crashing Nathan’s Pages From Ceefax!
1:36:33 Browsing the final(ish) Aertel service 2023
1:50:00 Browsing Aertel from 2010
2:23:20 Browsing TG4 from ???
2:25:30 Intermission: Reading the teletext spec LIVE
2:32:40 Browsing MTV Text from ???
2:35:00 Browsing TV3 Ireland 2013
2:56:00 BONUS: Browsing Yle Text 2016
3:08:04 Jamie’s Metro ‘article’
3:15:18 MUTTLEE collaborative artwork!
3:46:30 Saying a few final words for Aertel
3:50:28 Nathan’s channel popularity
3:57:20 gkthemac’s Whiskers the Cat fan art