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

[Daniel Pimienta]

I remember having tried stubbornly to convince Intelmatique 
executives (Intelmatique was the international arm of French Videotex 
with ambition to export the system abroad) between1998 and 1990, when 
Internet users population was growing from less than 1 million to 
more than 2 million users while Minitel figures went from 6 to 12 
millions to proceed to the big switch from Minitel to Internet and 
take the jackpot, business wise... before the number of Internet 
users would cross back the number of Minitel users (which did 
happened around 1993).

And I sure was not the only one to try!

The short term benefits of 3615 (which were incredible for both the 
carrier and the service providers due to the shaprness of the growth) 
blinding the long term perspective was my sad diagnostic.


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