Alas, Ceefax - we hardly knew ye

You were the last of the Teletext family to go

Oracle saw it coming, as far as we know

You'd been there on our tellies since '74

but the BBC Red Button meant you were needed no more

You were state of the art in a far simpler age,

when we were happy to read news page.. by.. slow.. bloody.. page

The wonders of typing in eight eighty eight

to watch telly in silence when staying up late

You were our early web (and sometimes a godsend)

from a day when TV used to actually end

but now just like Oracle and its cousin Prestel

you're confined to the scrapheap of history as well

Your primary colours on my screen I'll miss

without you in my life there is something amiss

Another aged beeb worker who has fell to the axe;

Into 8 bit heaven we commit you, Ceefax.