It was done. Teletext delivered news, sports results, horoscopes, closed captions, all directly to your TV in real-time. It was quite clever as a pre-internet method to deliver text content to every home.

All the people in the comments here being unaware of this makes me feel old.

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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