Teletext Holidays On Page 260
Late deals, in blocky text, updated four times a day.
A generation booked its holidays off the telly, writing phone numbers down as the pages rotated.
You had to be quick. The page cycled and if you missed the number you waited a full rotation, pen poised, while the family shouted at you.
Teletext Holidays outlived the technology that carried it and only closed as a business in 2021.
Cost back then
Free, the phone call was the expensive bit
Goes for now
Teletext screenshots are a whole aesthetic now
