The BBC has announced that 2020 will mark the end of the Red Button text service—the final incarnation of what was originally known as CEEFAX and Oracle. Those old text-based TV services would seem ridiculously clunky and old-fashioned to an internet generation used to instant streaming and apps for everything. But—as slow and frustrating as that old text system was—it paved the way for the World Wide Web and helped prepare us for the world of social media.
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