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Annual Update, Apparently

November 21, 2025

Erm, hello! I didn't intend to leave you all waiting a year for the next update, but here we are...

Firstly, I've now managed to completely clear the letter backlog, and I have thus stuffed them all into the museum. That means we now have over 12,200 letters in the museum, spanning over 2,000 days. We are not quite at the halfway point yet, but the figure is well into the 40 percent band.

Gracious thanks to all those who contributed, with an extra special mention to Tom Pitt, who has now retired from the dark art of recording teletext broadcasts from VHS tapes. He has contributed almost 10,000 recordings to the teletext recovery community as a whole.

Earlier this year I had a most excellent chat with The Artist Formerly Known As Gonzo. Legend! He revealed many interesting things about his time writing into the 'Zine, including the time he became a New Centurion (one of Teletext's youth writers). He might be one of the only 'Ziners to have met WLW in person (except Savo, the former Teletext employee).

At some point I intend to incorporate his story into the History section, along with some other topics of interest, so stay tuned for those updates.

Sadly the original online home of the 'Zine, The Vegetable Revolution, has sunk underneath the web's waves. The address now only points to a domain reseller, so I have removed it from the links section. Registration for those forums was closed around the same time as the 'Zine ended (around 2009-2010), and had become largely abandoned by this decade. Nevertheless, it was a trove of valuable history, and I'm sad to see it go.

This museum will stay online for the foreseeable future, and the Internet Archive has also archived most of the pages here too. Furthermore, a majority of the raw teletext pages can be found within the Teletext Recovery Github.

Talking about pages, if anyone has any letter pages from the Teletext MHEG-5 digital TV text service, I'd be interested to see them. It's too soon to think about putting any letters from 2006-09 into the museum, but I'm thinking ahead!

Festive greetings and onto 2026!

The Curator
webmaster@zinemuseum.co.uk

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