Ceefax
Proper noun
Meaning
Ceefax
English Wikipedia has an article on:CeefaxWikipedia
A simple information retrieval service offered by the BBC from 1974 until 2012, whereby "pages" of information are delivered sequentially to a television set and the viewer can move between them.
Examples
Ceefax and Teletext can have a larger number of captions for other languages due to the use of multiple VBI lines.
The television information retrieval service Teletext was initially introduced when the BBC Ceefax system went live on 23 September 1974.
UK/Australia The EBU Ceefax -based teletext systems are the source for closed captioning signals, thus when teletext is embedded into DVB-T or DVB-S the closed captioning signal is included.
You can also view page 696 of Ceefax, Monday's Guardian and specialist journals.
Page numbers were introduced in 2004 to aid navigation, with 3-digit page numbers matching with those of the analogue Ceefax in 2006.