It might be hard to believe today but France was once riding the technology wave, with millions of users surfing a prehistoric black-and-white version of the Web with a device called the Minitel. The ...

When I was in high school in the mid-1990s, I got to spend a few weeks with my French extended family at their country house east of Paris. Nearly each night, I watched my uncle stare into a small, ...

Before there was AOL, Amazon, Groupon, Google, Facebook, Yahoo! or any of today’s other Internet titans, there was the Minitel: the boxy little terminal that allowed French clients to access a wide ...

France pulls the plug on the Minitel this weekend, a home — grown precursor of the Internet which brought on — line banking, travel reservations and even sex chats to millions a decade before the ...

This Saturday, we mourn the passing of Minitel, the thirty-year-old service that brought France online when the world wide web was a mere twinkle in the eye of a man somewhere in England. Launched in ...

France Telecom switches off the once popular service provided via terminals as the country waxes nostalgic for technologies past. By Rebecca Leffler Computers Laptops iPads - H 2012 PARIS – France ...

Before there was the Internet, there were a lot of would-be Internets. Compuserve comes to mind, as do Prodigy, GEnie, Delphi, and the innumerable BBS systems that were once gateways to worlds beyond ...

*Fantastic that there are still so many of those running. Not for much longer, though. *France has historically been a huge source of many ingenious media devices overwhelmed by competitors. This was ...

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