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Mark Kent <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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> Ivan Groznii <ivan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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>> Hadron Quark wrote:
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>>> France has some funny ideas. Remember their teletext phone or whatever
>>> it was?
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>> You're referring to Minitel - which was sort of like a network of
>> teletext sites. It was a disaster for France, as its presence was an
>> obstacle to internet adoption. France has since caught up, but it took
>> longer than it should have.
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> I would suggest that minitel was highly successful, and was several
> years ahead of the internet. The issue about "catching up" is quite
> mistaken - minitel offered a /safe/ way of conducting financial
> transactions, whereas the internet is not safe for such things.
> Needless to say, with such an effective system already in place, with
> such wide coverage, internet growth was much slower in France. This is
> a reflection on how /good/ it was, not how bad.
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Sorry - not internet - web, at least in mainstream adoption, anyway.
The Prestel and Minitel systems were around before gopher came long...
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