Minitel
Monday 21st October 2024Filed in: Tech
A great article on Minitel — a system which was light years ahead of the game. Another case of being too early, perhaps?
A Minitel Terminal
In an influential 1978 report to President Valery Giscard d’Estaing, titled The Computerization of Society, government researchers Simon Nora and Alain Minc argued that the solution to France’s telecom woes lay in “telematics”—a combination of telecommunications and informatics. They outlined a plan for digitizing the telephone network, adding a layer of interactive teletext video technology, and providing entrepreneurs with an open platform for innovation.
The UK had it's own version too called Prestel.
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