http://paidcontent.org/2011/07/26/419-france-will-switch-off-pioneering-minitel-after-30-years/ The economics of digital content Fri, 13 Dec 2013 18:54:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://paidcontent.org/2011/07/26/419-france-will-switch-off-pioneering-minitel-after-30-years/#comment-84684 Wed, 27 Jul 2011 06:28:05 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/07/26/419-france-will-switch-off-pioneering-minitel-after-30-years/#comment-84684 Minitel was not a videotext service but a proprietary online media similar to some extent to Compuserve or early AOL days: it was a bidirectional media that flourished with dating services and early electronic commerce sites. By many aspects it was a precursor of the consumer internet that we know today.

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