Great free publicity for GFS
The best publicity has got to be FREE publicity and our web-site received
plenty of this on December 21, 1998 when the details of the site were
featured on the Channel 4 computer teletext pages. This can only help to
attract new members and keep George Formby's name in the limelight -
were it belongs.
WHAT TELETEXT WAS…
Well lets just say what teletext was - to me. You can find plenty of information on the
internet on the subject of teletext but to me personally, teletext was a brilliant British
invention that came free of charge on a television bought around around 1974 and up
until as late as 2012.
I loved teletext!
Long before the internet this was all that there was to feed information and news on all
sort of subjects to TV viewers.
When there was nothing to watch on TV, you could always rely on teletext for news,
magazine features, sports articles, record reviews, film reviews and even games!
I would use it every day - and then one day I found a page which invited the user to
interact and supply information on any web page that they had produced.
One page site
Back in 1997 when the GFS site was first created, it just a page with a postal address,
and email address and a telephone number but it very soon started to build to 460 odd
pages that there are today. Our first site address was http://www.saqnet.co.uk/users/
formbysociety
Great free publicity for GFS
The best publicity has
got to be FREE
publicity and our web-
site received plenty of
this on December 21,
1998 when the details
of the site were
featured on the
Channel 4 computer
teletext pages. This
can only help to
attract new members
and keep George
Formby's name in the
limelight - were it
belongs.
WHAT TELETEXT WAS…
Well lets just say what teletext was - to me. You can find
plenty of information on the internet on the subject of
teletext but to me personally, teletext was a brilliant British
invention that came free of charge on a television bought
around around 1974 and up until as late as 2012.
I loved teletext!
Long before the internet this was all that there was to feed
information and news on all sort of subjects to TV viewers.
When there was nothing to watch on TV, you could always
rely on teletext for news, magazine features, sports articles,
record reviews, film reviews and even games!
I would use it every day - and then one day I found a page
which invited the user to interact and supply information on
any web page that they had produced.
One page site
Back in 1997 when the GFS site was first created, it just a
page with a postal address, and email address and a
telephone number but it very soon started to build to 460
odd pages that there are today. Our first site address was
http://www.saqnet.co.uk/users/ formbysociety
