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It was a thing for most of the world, I just don’t believe it really caught on in the US, it was called teletext and was really widely used.
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Can confirm. It was common here in Norway. My dad got most of his news updates and weather forcasts from there, as he was usually busy during the evening news broadcast.
we still have teletext in Ukraine even though noone really uses it. (and also we don't have analogue tv anymore, but it's still possible to use them somehow afaik)
there's even an online version of the most popular one (Intertext) which has a realtime chat feature (you can text a specific number to send your own messages, kinda like discord lol)
http://intertext.com.ua/
It's weird that Noone would travel all the way to Ukraine to really use Teletext. He must love it!