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It was done. Teletext delivered news, sports results, horoscopes, closed captions, all directly to your TV in real-time. It was quite clever as a pre-internet method to deliver text content to every home.
All the people in the comments here being unaware of this makes me feel old.
Teletext in the Netherlands has an app now. People still use it.
Hey, while it looks like a dog's breakfast, it is an incredibly low bandwidth solution for such a useful service.