Alas, Ceefax - we hardly knew ye
You were the last of the Teletext family to go
Oracle saw it coming, as far as we know
You'd been there on our tellies since '74
but the BBC Red Button meant you were needed no more
You were state of the art in a far simpler age,
when we were happy to read news page.. by.. slow.. bloody.. page
The wonders of typing in eight eighty eight
to watch telly in silence when staying up late
You were our early web (and sometimes a godsend)
from a day when TV used to actually end
but now just like Oracle and its cousin Prestel
you're confined to the scrapheap of history as well
Your primary colours on my screen I'll miss
without you in my life there is something amiss
Another aged beeb worker who has fell to the axe;
Into 8 bit heaven we commit you, Ceefax.
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