Minitel
See also: minitel
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- (historical) A French videotex service utilising the telephone network, popular before and alongside the World Wide Web.
- 1995 September, Richard Barbrook, Andy Cameron, “The Californian Ideology”, in Mute[1], volume 1, number 3, →ISSN:
- The lesson of MINITEL is that hypermedia within Europe should be developed as a hybrid of state intervention, capitalist entrepreneurship and d.i.y. culture.
- 2017 June 16, Julien Mailand, “Minitel, the Open Network Before the Internet”, in The Atlantic[2]:
- Minitel was a computer terminal. It housed a screen, a keyboard, and a modem—but not a microprocessor. Instead of computing on its own, Minitel connected to remote services via uplink, like a 1960s mainframe or a modern Google Chromebook. Terminals were given out, for free, to every French telephone subscriber by the state (which also ran the phone company).
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editAbbreviation of Médium interactif par numérisation d’information téléphonique (“Interactive medium for digitized information by telephone”).
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- (historical) Minitel
- 2009, William Edmiston, Annie Dumenil, La France contemporaine, Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 286:
- Le Minitel était le premier réseau informatique du monde, créé bien avant Internet (réseau informatique mondial). Au départ, le Minitel était destiné à remplacer l’annuaire téléphonique en papier par l’annuaire électronique, et l’on s’en servait uniquement dans les bureaux de poste.
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edit- Minitel on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr
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