"It's hour has passed....Minitel is dead" Topic
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 20thmaine  | 27 Jun 2012 5:22 p.m. PST |
Well, here's a landmark in computing that has reached the end – Minitel is being unplugged. link Au Revoir Minitel – there's a place for you in computing heaven ! |
| Ditto Tango 2 3 | 27 Jun 2012 9:00 p.m. PST |
I had never heard of it. Interesting, thanks.
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Tim |
| Whatisitgood4atwork | 27 Jun 2012 9:38 p.m. PST |
Perhaps it will come back as a zombie. |
| Patrick R | 27 Jun 2012 11:10 p.m. PST |
A true computing milestone. And the reason why the French jumped so late on the internet bandwagon. RIP. link |
| Klebert L Hall | 28 Jun 2012 5:17 a.m. PST |
The article keeps going on about how "before the internet, there was Minitel!"…. Thing is, I was ON the damn internet before Minitel, so it obviously existed.
-Kle. |
| taskforce58 | 28 Jun 2012 6:58 a.m. PST |
Just like equating a BMP to a "Tank", most journalist equate "World Wide Web" to "Internet". WWW started in the early 90s. The Internet traces it's root back to the first two nodes on ARPANET in 1969, although the TCP/IP protocol suite – the "language" which communication on the Internet is defined – was not formally adopted until 1982, the same year that Minitel started. |
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