it's kinda nuts that the closed-captioning (togglable subtitles) tech everyone takes for granted these days was first released by the bbc in 1979 on teletext ("ceefax"). my mum taught me to type in 888 for that when i was 4 i think

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43 years on, the answer to the question "can i watch the bbc's live football at broadcast quality on a pc" is still a resounding "no"

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