SAVE THE DATE: WE'RE GETTING MARRIED ON OCTOBER 1ST, AND YOU'RE ALL INVITED!

SAVE THE DATE: WE'RE GETTING MARRIED ON OCTOBER 1st, AND YOU'RE ALL INVITED!

21/6/2016

Actually, no - we're not getting married. But it's almost as exciting. On October 1st 2016, Digitiser2000 will be co-hosting Block Party 2016: The Teletext and Digitiser Festival. Yes, that's right: an actual festival dedicated to all things Digitiser and teletext!

It'll be taking place at the Centre for Computing History in Cambridge, and will be an entire day of teletext and Digitiser-related activities. During the afternoon there'll be a live recording of the TeletextR podcast, a Teletext designers panel, demonstrations of how to recover old teletext pages, and other actives. Plus special guests!

Then you'll be treated to a full evening of Digitiser-related madness - further details of which will follow soon.

Tickets will include access to the museum, and will be going on sale shortly. Consider this a heads-up to put the date in your diaries.

If you've got suggestions for things you'd like to see at Block Party 2016 - please leave them in the comments. And we hope to see you there.

32 Comments

Spiney O'Sullivan

21/6/2016 12:26:47 pm

I'd like to see a giant picture of Turner the Worm being sick. Actually, something on the making of that strip would be fun.

Mr Biffo

21/6/2016 12:44:39 pm

I'll see what we can do...

Acid_Arrow

21/6/2016 01:00:50 pm

A giant, interactive game of Bamboozle somehow.

A lecture arguing how Teletext is better than the internet.

The actual Mr T - ensure he is fully fed on Marathons and briefed as to what Teletext is and why he is there.

Chris

21/6/2016 01:06:20 pm

He just needs to be positioned strategically near some bins. If anybody approaches, he booms, "stay away from my bins".

21/6/2016 01:09:25 pm

An interactive Bamboozle isn't far off something we actually are planning to do...

FEoD link

21/6/2016 06:37:59 pm

This needs to occur in a large area to allow the participants to select their answer by standing in a specific spot Rounaround-style.

Bonus points to the organisers if they can actually dig up Mike Reid's corpse to host it.

Double bonus points, if they can get the corpse to wear the Bacofoil spacesuit he sported when he introduced the first episode of He-Man and The Masters of the Universe on Children's ITV...

David W

21/6/2016 01:03:53 pm

I'll be there like The Four Tops.

Suggestion: brief retrospective covering the ZX Spectrum Teletext-styled "Spectacle" (Design Design), "Sceptical" (Delta 4), and "YS2" (J Nash.)

Super Bad Advice

21/6/2016 01:19:09 pm

A gig by The Rapping Shoe.

21/6/2016 01:24:14 pm

GNASGH! GRRAAGH! But... going to try to find a way to include some Digi characters.

21/6/2016 02:18:45 pm

I just think it'd be funny to see you hiding behind a plinth with an old boot on it, beatboxing.

21/6/2016 02:21:26 pm

That's highly unlikely to occur. Lower your expectations even further.

21/6/2016 06:57:41 pm

Nude beatboxing, with an old boot preserving your modesty.

Dr Kank

21/6/2016 01:43:17 pm

I'd like to see plenty of Ceefax dissing.

21/6/2016 01:47:57 pm

Cuss them bad.

Actually, didn't Biffo say there was once a snakes animated series in the works? If there's any test footage of that knocking around, it might be interesting to see.

21/6/2016 01:50:56 pm

Actually... it was a puppet show. We filmed about 10 of them. I MAY have them on tape somewhere. I'll see what I can find. I'll also dig out any old Digi memorabilia I can find. Not sure I've got much, but I might have some...

Your Wife

21/6/2016 01:48:46 pm

So, one minute we're getting married, the next we're not. Honestly, living with you is like being in a bad storyline from the Archers* or something like that.

*Adjust according to target audience

Suggestion

21/6/2016 01:52:11 pm

Why not book the Cassetteboy comedy disco for afterwards? Their brand of purile, offensive musical humour definitely appeals to me, and I'd imagine most other Biffo fans?

Mr BIffo

21/6/2016 01:53:04 pm

I'll look him up. We've got a packed provisional schedule - not sure we've time for a comedy disco afterwards. We'll no doubt hit the pub, though...

21/6/2016 01:53:55 pm

Also, he'll probably want paying, and we're not aiming to make a profit!

Voodoo76

21/6/2016 01:52:29 pm

I'd like a live demonstration on how to cook the best slow cooked pulled pork. Please.

Heeden

21/6/2016 03:00:25 pm

Make sure every panel starts 1/5th of the way through so the people have to try to ignore what they're saying until it gets back to the start.

Bruce Flagpole

21/6/2016 03:48:19 pm

Hahaha...a classic. I remember squinting at the screen to try to watch the page numbers whilst not seeing any of the text/score for reviews...

Gordon Palsy

21/6/2016 03:56:57 pm

A stall run by none other than yourself, creating live teletext-art caricatures at 1996 prices.

MB Games

21/6/2016 07:33:25 pm

You know, back in the day of Digi i struggled to go without to such an extent, that even waking up hungover in some squalid strangers house, with comatose drunks littering the living room i would religiously sneak the tv on and plug in the Digitiser teletext page number before anyone woke up... good times

21/6/2016 07:40:55 pm

That makes me feel all nice and warm inside...

Chomboss Wankuss

21/6/2016 08:44:09 pm

Der Mega-Catt!!!

Rob kemp

22/6/2016 06:12:33 am

You will need to have lots of groovy electronic library music, like they used to play when they showed pages from ceefax and teletext on TV.

Eric McEricface

22/6/2016 10:28:53 am

Invite selected Digitiser correspondents to perform live recitals of some of their best (worst) letters.

Gaijintendo

22/6/2016 12:53:46 pm

I'd be entirety up for that.

Abba The Horse

22/6/2016 08:57:41 pm

I'd enjoy a brief discussion on why pressing Hold and then turning it off again, in no way made the page change any quicker.

Dave Justice

22/6/2016 09:00:00 pm

Plans are already being made. I'll be attending with former published letter correspondent Tropical Barry.

Graham

23/6/2016 10:47:01 am

Can we have a session on how to translate Zombie Dave's ir-revevant musings? Never quite got the hang of it.

SAVE THE DATE: WE'RE GETTING MARRIED ON OCTOBER 1st, AND YOU'RE ALL INVITED!

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