iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 6h

It's taken a while for the massive speed boost of full fibre to smack me in the face. For most websites, hardly noticed the difference. Video uploads though...🚅💨 Took me going "wait, where's my video gone?!" a few times, as I didn't actually see it uploading, for me to twig that it already had 🤣

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 9h

If you caught me streaming on Twitch last night, no you didn't...actually, this time, yes you did! If all goes to plan, we'll be live from Stroud for Blocktoberfest 2026 on Saturday. 📺 www.twitch.tv/jamienemeth ℹ️ www.xenoxxx.com/block26/inde... #Teletext #Twitch #Live #Stream

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Today is new fibre install day, so I'm about to lose the VDSL connection. I discovered you can buy ethernet to VDSL converters. I could theoretically simulate my own VDSL broadband service, connect my old router to it via a phone cable, and make the light go blue again. *gets viscerally excited*

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Does everyone else have a penny-drop moment that suddenly makes something that was said to you twenty years ago make sense, or are you normal?

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PeterKVT80 @xenoxxx.com · 05/09/2026

#teletext Blocktoberfest is coming to Stroud on October 3. Hope to see you there. www.xenoxxx.com/block26/inde...

Teletext page inviting people to Blocktoberfest 2026 on October 3

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Who called them marine biologists and not aquademics

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Haven't had a chance to do anything new for Star Trek's 60th birthday yet, but here's the Bamboozle-style quiz I made for a previous Star Trek Day, i.e. the anniversary of the airing of 'The Man Trap'! www.jamienemeth.co.uk/teletext/vie... #StarTrek #StarTrekDay #StarTrek60 #Teletext #Bamboozle

Teletext page on TrekkieText. Bamber Boozler (the quiz master from Bamboozle) in a red Star Trek uniform (TNG-era). Speech bubble.

Heading: Starfleet Academy

Text reads: Commandant Boozler has an opening for a cadet. But do you know your Starfleet history as well as you think you do?

Speech bubble reads: Hopefully you've been revising the video records of notable missions? This quiz will be a breeze if so!

PRESS THE RED BUTTON ON YOUR CONTROL PAD TO BEGIN!

More from the Starfleet historical database! Find the index on p700

Teletext page on TrekkieText, in the style of a TNG-era LCARS display, with the heading 'History Test 47', and a Bamboozle-style multiple choice quiz question.

Text reads:

Question 1: What planet is the USS Enterprise NCC-1701 orbiting in the first aired episode 'The Man Trap'?

Talos IV
Delta Vega
M-113
Lazarus's Planet

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Nit Nurse With Wound @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Picturehouse doing faux Teletext cinema ads, attn @marthasadie.bsky.social

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Is it a great timelapse? No. Is it perfectly tracked? No. Is it exactly time-aligned? No. But it's mine. From my front doorstep. Some said "I got nothing by me"...well...physics don't work like that...I can only assume you went back indoors before the maximum... #SolarEclipse #Eclipse #Eclipse2026

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Brought this camcorder out of retirement for the solar eclipse. Last used in 2015. Still had three-quarters battery when I stopped. Impressed it held a charge at all, after all this time. It's only SD, but it's got a great zoom lens, probably the best I own. #SolarEclipse #Eclipse #Eclipse2026

Panasonic SDR-H85 camcorder on top of a tripod, with a square of solar eclipse filter film taped in front of the lens.

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I posted in our local Facebook group about today's eclipse. Pretty uncontroversial stuff: don't look at the sun except with certified eclipse glasses, here's how to make a pinhole projector. Someone commented "nanny state"... Listen, it's not illegal to look directly at the sun. It's just stupid.

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Rex Caprorum @rexcaprorum.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

@jamienemeth.bsky.social, I think you'll approve of this

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I've seen a few posts getting excited about the upcoming solar eclipse, and referring to the last one being 1999, or that this will be the best one since 1999... ...has everyone collectively forgotten that 2015 happened, where we had 93% totality in Swansea, and clear skies?!

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

It's just like how my name is pronounced Jay-mee, but people kept calling me Jaym-ee and I just sort of went along with it...huge difference 🤔 Dear me...seriously...Wait-rose vs. Way-trose...you're having a giraffe...that's gi-raffe, not gir-affe 🤣 www.foodbible.com/news/uk-food...

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Waitrose confirms you've been pronouncing chain's name wrong all this time

Who knew there was a 'right' way to say Waitrose?

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Paul McNamara @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Current status: walking back from Co-op with baguette and naan to settle a frankly rather heated dispute over which can be thrown further.

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

A friend donated this IBM ThinkPad 365X to me, saying "I knew you'd know what to do with it!" I tried an SD to IDE adapter, but that was a no-go. The laptop could see some files, but trying to access them made half disappear. Very odd. The CF to IDE adapter, though? Proof is in the pudding!

SanDisk ultra II 1.0 GB CompactFlash card in a 2.5-inch CF to IDE adapter, resting on top of a closed IBM ThinkPad laptop.

Underside of a SanDisk CompactFlash card in a 2.5-inch CF to IDE adapter inserted into the IDE interface inside a laptop.

Microsoft Windows 95 setup screen on an IBM ThinkPad 365X laptop, showing that files are being copied.

Microsoft Windows 95 desktop on an IBM ThinkPad 365X laptop.

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The telescopic support pole that's so easy to install, even girls can do it! 🥳 This online shopping advert appeared in my feeds...*checks notes*...yesterday...in...*checks calendar*...2026 🤦‍♂️ #EverydaySexism

A woman adjusting one of two extending telescopic support poles going from the floor to under a table top, to support the weight of the table. The text reads "not easy to hurt the table, easy to install, girls can also install."

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

My needs and wants for a relationship are all the things that have gradually come back to me since I stopped suppressing them to try and make a relationship work.

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Not the first time I've connected an old PC to my own dialup ISP, but the first time the PC and ISP haven't been in the same room, let alone on the same table! The theoretical maximum speed is 33.6 kbps (two modems alone can't hit 56k something something), so 26.4 to the attic and back ain't bad!

Photo of an LCD display of a laptop running Windows 98, showing a dialup connection status window above a file explorer window. There is a dialup connection icon (an old-style corded telephone connected to two PCs). The dialup connection title bar says 'Connected to Nemnet', and the window says: Connected at 26,400 bps, Duration: 8 minutes 23 seconds, Bytes received: 41,202, Bytes sent: 10,043. The window also has OK, Disconnect, and Details buttons.

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

The awkward moment when you realise you have zero PCs with known working floppy disk drives, except for the laptop with a FDD in unknown condition that you need to make the floppy disk for 🤣 I did dig out my known working FDD to use on the testbench PC, but there's no FDD port on the motherboard 🙃

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Only seven months after I put this testbench PC together, it finally has an operating system on it! 🫣 I've had plenty of other things going on, but I was also agonising about how to partition the drive to get the optimum multiboot scenario, and as a result, it was just sitting around doing nothing.

An open-chassis testbench PC sat on top of a VCR, with Gigabyte motherboard, CPU cooler with fan spinning, hard disk drive, a couple of expansion cards, RAM, PSU and power switch visible.

Windows XP install in progress on a small monitor, showing as 45% complete.

Windows XP desktop on a small monitor, with the iconic "Bliss" mountain and sky desktop wallpaper, with no icons except for the Recycle Bin.

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Yeah, sex is cool, but have you ever experienced a breeze after a UK heatwave?

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Got stupidly excited because I thought I heard distant thunder. But it was just a plane 🥲🥵 ✈️ #Heatwave #UKHeatwave

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

How can the brand-new consoles I'm still working up to owning be this old already?! 😭

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Been heartening to witness the flood of people helping @morefunmakingit.bsky.social rebuild the Retro Hardware Discord from collective memory, after it got wiped out by a hacker. I wasn't in RHD 1.0, so if there's a silver lining, it's that new people like me just became aware of this community.

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I'm going in chronological order (at a snail's pace) with the #Teletext50 videos...but next up is the brilliant impromptu interview with @mrbiffo.bsky.social! It's a good watch if you're a Digi fan, but also if you're relatively new to it all, as that's where I'm coming from. youtu.be/8VazX1vAVGY

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Teletext 50 - Interview with Paul Rose, Digitiser's "Mr. Biffo"

YouTube video by Jamie Nemeth

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Super Page 58 @superpage58.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

NEW UPDATE ALERT 12 editions of Digi have been recovered by @jamienemeth.bsky.social & are waiting for you now, including the 1996 Christmas Pant-oh! Huge thanks to Jamie & to @andrewisaround.bsky.social & @zxguesser.bsky.social for fixin' 'em up. @mrbiffo.bsky.social www.superpage58.com/update.htm

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I planned to do a "proper" video later, but never managed it 🥲 So here's my first-ever visit to @computinghistory.org.uk for #Teletext50, with dreams of following in @tomscott.com's footsteps, but delivered like the @nostalgianerd.com you got off Temu streaming on RealPlayer 🤣 youtu.be/NFGAky_fHQI

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Teletext 50 - live walkaround, nostalgia overload!

YouTube video by Jamie Nemeth

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

"It's never really been the case that we absolutely curtail the freedom of absolutely everybody, just so that we catch the few." Some food for thought from Blackbelt Barrister: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Fw1...

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Under-16s Social Media BAN

YouTube video by BlackBeltBarrister

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

In genuine disbelief to have found a SECOND GRAIL?!?! This box of VHS tapes was passed on to me at Chunky Fringe 2025: didn't record them myself, and they're a huge mixed bag, not weighted towards Channel 4, and many of those pre-Digi. To have uncovered the grail that completes a set, as well?! 🏆

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Relationship status: I bought another USB dialup modem and it arrives today 🤭

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Dr. Jamie Nemeth presents: Fun With Frequencies The first image is Freeview on its own, direct from the loft aerial. The second image is the analogue TV signal from my six UHF modulators, without the loft aerial plugged in. The device is a TinySA spectrum analyzer.

TinySA spectrum analyser graphing the UHF spectrum between 480 and 790 MHz. There are nine distinct bands with amplitudes approximately 20 dB above the noise floor, corresponding to DVB-T Freeview TV signals, along with a few smaller spikes at the high end of the frequency range, possibly 4G mobile signals.

TinySA spectrum analyser graphing the UHF spectrum between 480 and 790 MHz. There are six signals (one towards the lower frequency end of the graph on the left, and five grouped at the high frequency end on the right) with amplitudes approximately 45 dB above the noise floor, corresponding to PAL analogue TV signals (supplied by UHF modulators, a single strong peak and two smaller sidebands / double sideband), along with a few smaller noise spikes, possibly 4G mobile signals.

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I don't want to make rescuing CRT TVs a habit, as I'll very quickly run out of room. But this one came from a garage around the corner from where I lived, being emptied out to go to scrap, and I couldn't let it go to scrap. Ordered a remote on eBay, and then I'll see if teletext works! #CRT #TV

Daewoo silver CRT TV, displaying a test card pattern with the letters IBA.

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

It's been a hot minute since I joined in with a mass exodus! Switched over to @duckduckgo.com on my main PC and phone.

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Yet another new idea before I've finished (or started) the other new ideas... Chunkytube: a collection of playlists of any YouTube content I find that's UK-teletext-related. No AI has been involved in the scrobbling...it's all done by a human, i.e. me. www.youtube.com/@ChunkyTubeUK #Teletext

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Chunkytube

Curated playlists of videos from across YouTube which relate to the UK's teletext services, past and present.

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Zoë Blade @www.zoeblade.com · 27/05/2026

I wrote a short article about the garish colour palette used by teletext, the ZX Spectrum, Windows 3.1, the World Wide Web, the Linux command line, etc. notebook.zoeblade.com/Boolean_colo...

For want of a better phrase, the Boolean colour palette is a garish colour palette that's technically simple to implement on colour CRTs such as TV sets.

Colour CRTs work by combining the additive primary colours red, green, and blue in varying intensities to make all the other colours.

The Boolean colour palette simply uses Boolean logic to toggle all three of these primary colours between full tilt and completely off. Any one in isolation gives you that colour; any two in combination give you one of the secondary colours cyan, magenta, and yellow; all three give you white; and none at all give you black. So using three bits gives you eight colours to work with.

An optional fourth Boolean value for brightness doubles the palette, for sixteen colours represented by four bits — a nibble.

This palette was very common circa the 1980s, used by old standards such as the ANSI escape codes for video terminals, teletext for televisions, and videotex for phones, as well as by new home computers such as the BBC Micro and the beloved ZX Spectrum.

The C64 was notable for not conforming to this palette. Its engineers devised a way to pick any arbitrary sixteen colours, and so were able to choose a much more aesthetically appealing palette.

Even into the 1990s, a slight variation of the 4-bit Boolean colour palette made an appearance in the IBM PC's CGA, EGA, and VGA graphics cards. This led to its use in Windows 3.1, and even the World Wide Web's sixteen named colours.

It's surely the most common of the 3-bit and 4-bit colour palettes.

When designing a user interface or video game using the Boolean colour palette, you can try further limiting the colours to complementary (opposite), triadic (a third of the colour wheel away), or analogous (neighbouring) colours... but with such a garish starting point, it will barely help.

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ZXGuesser @zxguesser.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

A little snack-sized teletext treat courtesy of @jamienemeth.bsky.social's most recent VHS recoveries. A little bridging episode of Turner the Worm to take us from a fantasy story about fairies, off to a sci-fi Christmas on Planet X. Read on: zxnet.co.uk/teletext/tur... *features celebrity guests!

Turner the Worm in Cosmic Interlude, by Paul Rose.
A magic tree has granted Turner's wish - that he be able to spend Christmas with his friend Glug, who is living on another planet with his alien baby.

Turner appears with a "ping!" on an alien planet with a cafe on a rocky plateau.
"What the...? That stupid tree must have messed his spell up - this isn't Glug's planet. Oh well, I'll see if someone in that cafe can help me."

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Not quite breathing a sigh of relief, just breathing, for now. Llongyfarchiadau @plaidcymru.bsky.social. Let's make the most of this opportunity to prove ourselves. Let's make the most of this opportunity to prove our critics wrong. Let's make the most of this opportunity, for the whole of Wales.

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Tonight's the night Isembard's Wheel head to Hotel Brigadoon Pontypridd. We will have a wonderful musical time, and hopefully I'll see friends there if you're near. Just be prepared for me to cling on to my fiddle even more dearly than I usually do, whatever the outcome of the next few hours. 🎻

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

My brain has been so marinated in the Wales/UK election build-up, that my gut reaction to this was "I can't believe Remain are ahead of the Switch 1" 🤣

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Deri Reed @ethicalchef.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I’m voting for the future of food, farming & communities in Wales. I’m voting Plaid Cymru. Make sure you vote today for the change you want to see. D x 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #plaidcymru

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I look very serious here, but maybe that's because it's a serious day? I voted for who I felt had the best interests of Wales at heart, based on evidence not propaganda, optimism not anger. I chose hope over division today. @plaidcymru.bsky.social #BrycheiniogTaweNedd #PlaidCymru #Senedd2026

Me standing in front of my local polling station (community centre), in front of a sign on a fence saying 'Gorsaf Bleidleisio / Polling Station', wearing sunglasses.

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

How could I have missed this opportunity, until now, to show my support in the most "me" way possible?! The party I'll be voting for in tomorrow's Senedd elections, as teletext art. @plaidcymru.bsky.social #BrycheiniogTaweNedd #PlaidCymru #Senedd2026 #Teletext #TeletextArt

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Obviously it's not up to me, but I'd happily pay more tax, voluntarily, if it meant never having to hear the phrase "those who could work but choose not to" ever again. But I'd want that as a guarantee. Like, make it illegal to utter it.

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

YOU'RE KIDDING? I found a grail?!?! I'm a relative newbie to teletext recovery, and relatively late to the game. I wasn't even expecting to have found any previously-unfound Digitiser by now, but I've managed a handful so far, and every little helps, of course. BUT A GRAIL?!?!

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Sometimes I wonder if people realise that the idiom "the grass is always greener on the other side" (or Travis song, if you prefer) isn't supposed to be taken as a motivational quote to continually seek greener grass.

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