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    The Minitel, officially known as TELETEL, was an interactive videotex online service accessible through telephone lines. It was the world's first and...
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    Videotex (section Minitel)
    displays at an airport. This usage is no longer common. With the exception of Minitel in France, videotex elsewhere never managed to attract any more than a...
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  • the early 1970s through the work of Rémi Després. The company rolled out Minitel, a Videotex online service accessible through telephone lines, experimentally...
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    created then sold his first company, a Minitel (a French forerunner of the internet) service company. This minitel-site provided sex oriented chat services...
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    service for Minitel, "Marlboro Racing Service", the following year. At 17, he set up Concerto Télématique, a company providing interactive Minitel and telephone...
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  • 25 protocol approved and deployed on public data networks 1978 (1978): Minitel introduced 1979 (1979): Internet Activities Board (IAB) 1980 (1980): USENET...
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  • Rémy Roy (born 1958), known as The Minitel Killer (French: Le Tueur du Minitel), is a French serial killer who killed three gay men between 1990 and 1991...
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    general public until 1994. The Alextel terminal was based on the French Minitel terminals, built by Northern Telecom and leased to customers for $7.95/month...
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    25 protocol approved and deployed on public data networks 1978 (1978): Minitel introduced 1979 (1979): Internet Activities Board (IAB) 1980 (1980): USENET...
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    alternative to the WWW Internet metaphors Internet security Lists of websites Minitel, a predecessor of the WWW Streaming media Web 1.0 Web 2.0 Web 3.0 Web3...
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  • into their lives. The Minitel System was one of France's earliest attempts to bridge the gap caused by the digital divide. The Minitel System, influenced...
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    digital switching -- Minitel and the GSM standard—were invented by engineers and CNET researchers. In 1982, Telecom introduced Minitel online ordering for...
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    CompuServe (US – later bought by America Online), The Source (US), and Minitel (France) among many others. These services usually required custom software...
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    service based on X.25 operated. Known as Minitel it was based on Videotex, itself running on X.25. In 2002, Minitel had about 9 million users, and in 2011...
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    25 protocol approved and deployed on public data networks 1978 (1978): Minitel introduced 1979 (1979): Internet Activities Board (IAB) 1980 (1980): USENET...
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    25 protocol approved and deployed on public data networks 1978 (1978): Minitel introduced 1979 (1979): Internet Activities Board (IAB) 1980 (1980): USENET...
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  • professional customers, it was later used by millions of French terminals Minitels to access consumer applications, forerunners of those of the Internet....
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  • Atari ST, TRS-80 Color Computer, Oric, Texas Instruments TI-99/4A, TRS-80, Minitel, Teletext, ATASCII, PETSCII, ZX80, and ZX81 character sets. Semigraphics...
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  • of nuclear energy (close to 80% of French electrical consumption), the Minitel, an early online system for the masses, and the TGV, a high-speed rail...
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  • 25 protocol approved and deployed on public data networks 1978 (1978): Minitel introduced 1979 (1979): Internet Activities Board (IAB) 1980 (1980): USENET...
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  • Provençale. March 26, 1958. Vital-Durand, Brigitte (29 June 1996). "Le tueur du Minitel condamné à perpétuité. Rémy Roy était jugé pour le meurtre de trois homosexuels...
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  • 25 protocol approved and deployed on public data networks 1978 (1978): Minitel introduced 1979 (1979): Internet Activities Board (IAB) 1980 (1980): USENET...
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    the TGV high speed train and the Minitel, a pre-World Wide Web interactive network similar to the web. The Minitel and the Paris-Lyon TGV line were inaugurated...
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    became popular except in France (where millions of videotex terminals (Minitel) where given out by the telecom provider) and the UK, where the Prestel...
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  • 25 protocol approved and deployed on public data networks 1978 (1978): Minitel introduced 1979 (1979): Internet Activities Board (IAB) 1980 (1980): USENET...
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    became the first country to have an electronic directory on a system called Minitel. The directory is called "11" after its telephone access number. In 1991...
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  • business-to-business (B2B) online shopping system to be installed. 1982: Minitel was introduced nationwide in France by France Télécom and used for online...
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    25 protocol approved and deployed on public data networks 1978 (1978): Minitel introduced 1979 (1979): Internet Activities Board (IAB) 1980 (1980): USENET...
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  • sis kɛ̃z kɔd pɛʁ nɔ.ɛl], "3615 code Father Christmas", referring to a Minitel dialing number; also known as Deadly Games, Dial Code Santa Claus, Game...
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  • 25 protocol approved and deployed on public data networks 1978 (1978): Minitel introduced 1979 (1979): Internet Activities Board (IAB) 1980 (1980): USENET...
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