"To keep it up to date the screens needed to synchronise pages from a central server", Peter says. Using the Raspberry Pi, "Fringefax" was planned so that TVs around the town would display the schedule and other festival information. Having previously written wxTED, a much-needed teletext editor for modern PCs, Peter built his own text service for the town of Stroud, for its Fringe festival. He was inspired by the work of Peter Kwan, who used to work in visual effects and computer graphics - including on teletext systems for both ITV and the BBC. Forget Web 2.0 - "it would be like web zero", the man who had the idea - Carl Attrill - tells me. The ability to display real text pages has been possible for some time now - but the idea to hook it up to a central server so that it would transform into a fully fledged teletext broadcasting system is new. On page 888, where subtitles would traditionally reside, is a rolling set of (terrible) jokes that make use of the fabled "reveal" button. displays a stream of recent tweets, and page 503 even has what is presumably the world's least convenient messageboard system. There are even some pages that pull in data from the web and convert it to teletext format. At the time of writing, the service has been live for a few weeks and is more like a proof of concept - with a number of developers taking control of a few pages for themselves to share text or their best teletext art.
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