In 1974, a brand new technology called teletext was being rolled out. It would, over the next few decades, have far-reaching implications, not only in the UK but worldwide. These are the stories of those involved in the production, restoration and art of the blocky medium that graced UK TV screens until 2012. You’ll hear from the pioneers, those who made teletext tick, and the newcomers keeping the medium alive 50 years after its inception. This is a social record of teletext, and these are the teletext people.

'A part of me is cavalier about survival... I can be a lunatic at times' - Rhod Gillbert and Angela Barnes on tackling one of the world's most dangerous roads

#sonic #retrogaming #digitiser With the help of their special guests Ashens, Larry Bundy Jr, Dan Does, Sooz Kempner and Beanus, Mr Biffo and Gannon take a lo...

I've been running this community for a while now and want sure how it would plan out. Thank you all for subscribing and posting both beautiful and creepy fae folk art. (Edit: I meant to post a bit more often myself but due to personal issues it's fallen by the wayside a bit)

As a Christmas special, in this thread only, please post photos of your Christmas tree fairies. 🧚

(I'm posting this from an alt as feddit.uk is down)

Aertel was formally launched in 1987 and will close on Thursday, 12 October.

TL;DR: Please resubscribe to !britishcomedy / @britishcomedy

When I joined Kbin/Fedia back in June I was optimistic that it would surpass Lemmy in every way. I still prefer the interface, but because it's early days for it there isn't (quite yet) an API for running 3rd party apps and bots. So I signed up for Lemmy a month or so later and then discovered Connect, and I've been using that more and more and Kbin less and less.

It didn't really matter that some of my magazines (as Kbin calls them) were on Fedia as I could still monitor them from Lemmy and then log in if any moderation needed to be done (you can assign Lemmy users as mods but they can't do anything), right? Well, it appears not. I discovered a bug which means posts to a Kbin magazine don't federate properly unless somebody on the host instance interacts with them.

The bug has gained no traction at all even though I've proved it happens, and I'm getting increasingly frustrated with having to log in to Kbin just to upvote everything to get it to push articles and comments out to other subscribers. Especially as I have no way of knowing something is waiting until I log in...

So, the upshot of this is I'm moving this community/magazine to feddit.uk (arguably where it should have been originally but I wasn't familiar with Lemmy at the point I created it). I'm still optimistic for Kbin's future but the backend needs to improve!

Please re-subscribe using whichever of the following works for you:

• !britishcomedy
• !britishcomedy
• @britishcomedy
• https://feddit.uk/c/britishcomedy

The official lyric video for Sam Ryder - SPACE MANSam Ryder will represent the United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Turin with the song 'SPA...

On 18 September 2023, the Felling relay transmitter will close as a result of demolition. A small number of households who receive their signal directly from the transmitter may lose services once the transmitter closes.

The two comics celebrate Ted's 10th birthday and the beautiful British countryside as their perfect series returns for a sixth time

TL;DR: Please re-subscribe to !yoursinclair

I have taken the decision to move this community/magazine over to Lemmy. The main reason for this is because I want to run a bot to post some random issues/pages to make this community a bit more interesting and alive.

The new community is hosted over at retrolemmy.com as that seemed like an appropriate place to do so.

New links

One of these should work, if not then searching for the full URL usually works best in Lemmy.

!yoursinclair - Lemmy

@yoursinclair - Kbin

!yoursinclair - generic link for clients to decide what to do with

Half-remembered facts, forgotten memories and made-up lies about Britain's best-selling Spectrum magazine, Your Sinclair.

A band of anthropomorphic 8-bit computers sing their take on a Kraftwerk classic. CAUTION: contains in-jokes.Presented at the Forever 2023 demoparty, Trnava,...

Wipeout for the Plus/4. Wait... what?

Several charging points for electric vehicles at a motorway service station still aren’t hooked up to the power network after connection delays.

Radio Caroline is now available to listeners across England through Freeview Channel 277 via the UK Radio Portal.

I picked this up in a charity shop some time ago and was trying to run it on Windows 95 with no luck. Just happened upon this guide which says it works on Windows 10 - ran through it and played the first couple of easy levels. It does work!

More than half of people believe MP’s absence is significantly damaging parliament’s reputation, poll shows

The second Emley Moor TV mast is due to be taken down in autumn 2023 after work was finally completed two years behind schedule

London Northwestern Railway has announced that trains on the Marston Vale Line will not return in time for the new school term beginning.