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Ceefax
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English
Etymology
Explained as a phonetic rendition of see facts. An earlier electromechanical system was called BEEBFAX: see en Beeb and en fax.
Proper noun
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.
See also
en Teletext