Monday, July 2, 2012

BBC News - Minitel: The rise and fall of the France-wide web

BBC News reports: France is switching off its groundbreaking Minitel service which brought online banking, travel reservations, and porn to millions of users in the 1980s. But then came the worldwide web. Minitel has been slowly dying and the plug will be pulled on Saturday. (read the rest of the article)

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