It's taken five years, but now the whole of the UK is officially digital. Northern Island is the final place on the map to receive exclusively digital services. 

The switch over was met with murmurs of disdain and disbelief from all over prior to the go-ahead by the government. Although it has cost the government £1b to orchestrate the switchover, reportedly Digital UK, the institution commissioned with the mammoth task of altering the systems of an entire country, have (for the first time in British history it seems), come in on time and under budget, according to the Guardian. 

Although the switch over is fundamentally for the good of us all, the death of analog in almost all its forms  (music, video and television) forces us to say goodbye to Ceefax after over three decades. According to the Telegraph, when Ceefax first came into being it was run by just one producer and was "the only on-demand real-time information network that allowed users to get news, weather and sports results outside of broadcast schedules". The aesthetics of Ceefax have been love and parodied for decades. And while it may be sad to say goodbye to such a fantastically obsolete form of information, we can rejoice in everything digital television has given us; hundreds of extra channels, television on demand, the Internet everywhere and the red button. For these we are grateful. 

Ed Richard, chief exec. of Ofcom spoke in praise of the digital age. "Not only has it created more TV choice for consumers," he said, "it has also freed up vital capacity that will be used to deliver mobile broadband services to 98 per cent of cities, towns and villages across the UK."