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Unfortunately no, we missed this important piece of technology
Not really though. In Europe teletext was very prominent (and is still available today, at least here in Germany). It’s basically a newspaper on the TV.
Now, the only person I know who still uses it is my granddad who wishes nothing more than for the internet to be more like the teletext.
My granddads problem is rather, that it’s impossible to use the internet without sending data to the internet while the teletext is downstream only.
If people were willing to make content with just text it could be done with plain old HTML and HTTP. W3C is not pointing a gun at anyone's head and forcing them to write 100MB of JavaScript for every page. Having a new protocol just increases the barrier to a text-first internet.