[governance] FW: <nettime> Adieu Minitel, Adieu!

[Roland Perry]

In message <3F3C6AE6E66F47DBB77B6F8B474550F9 at UserVAIO>, at 10:32:01 on
Sun, 1 Jul 2012, michael gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com> writes
>Today is the last day in service of France's "bogus brother of the Internet"
>(Le Monde), that strange square box called the Minitel, launched in
>1981/1982.

Interestingly, this April was also when the BBC's very similar
(visually, anyway) CEEFAX service (launched 1974) was switched off, for
almost all users.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceefax
-- 
Roland Perry

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