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[Edward Wesolowski <ids AT idisplay.com>]

> Actually, it's not a web interface but is more like a BBS (remember
> those?). It's called MiniTel, but it's not part of 'standard' telephones
> at all;
Is MiniTel in fact what Linda was referring to or was it something else? 
MiniTel's been around at least since the '80's. I'm glad to see the 
parallel drawn between the web and MiniTel. France was way ahead 
technically when the French Government implimented this. I don't know that 
any compelling business model was made for any of the VideoText trials in 
the U.S., though, and with no govt. support, we had to wait for the web to 
do something like what MiniTel was doing. I wonder if it was successful and 
paid for itself in France before the world wide web overtook it?


> and according to www.minitel.fr, it looks like Minitel is being
> migrated to a more standard ISP - type service. (see
> http://www.stud.enst.fr/~meunier/images/min_enst.gif for a screenshot of
> TeleTel)
>
> cheers
> KJ
>
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