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Minitel
Minitel 1, built in 1982
Developer
Postes, Télégraphes et Téléphones
Type
Videotex
Launch date
1982; 42 years ago (1982)
Discontinued
30 June 2012; 11 years ago (30 June 2012)
Platform(s)
Minitel
Status
Discontinued
Members
10 million monthly connections (2009)
The Minitel was a videotex online service accessible through telephone lines, and was the world's most successful online service prior to the World Wide Web. It was invented in Cesson-Sévigné, near Rennes, Brittany, France.
The service was rolled out experimentally on 15 July 1980[1] in Saint-Malo, France, and from autumn 1980 in other areas. It was introduced commercially throughout France in 1982 by the PTT (Postes, Télégraphes et Téléphones; divided since 1991 between France Télécom and La Poste).[2] From its early days, users could make online purchases, make train reservations, information services for business, search the telephone directory, have a mail box, and chat in a similar way to what is now made possible by the World Wide Web.
In February 2009, France Télécom indicated the Minitel network still had 10 million monthly connections. France Télécom retired the service on 30 June 2012.[2][3][4]
^Puech, Michel (20 June 2010). "Le monde du Minitel se paye Le Monde" [The world of Minitel pays for 'Le Monde' (A wordplay: the newspaper 'Le Monde' translates as 'The World'.)]. Mediapart (in French). Archived from the original on 2 August 2020. Retrieved 30 June 2019.
^ ab"Minitel: The rise and fall of the France-wide web" Archived 10 November 2017 at the Wayback Machine, Hugh Schofield, BBC News Magazine (Paris), 27 June 2012.
^"Le Minitel disparaîtra en juin 2012" [Minitel will disappear in June 2012]. Le Figaro (in French). Agence France Presse. 21 July 2011. Archived from the original on 11 November 2020. Retrieved 21 July 2011. English translation Archived 18 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine)
^Lichfield, John (9 June 2012). "How France Fell Out of Love with Minitel". The Independent. Archived from the original on 15 May 2022.
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