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

[Daniel Pimienta]

At 12:03 02/07/2012, CW Mail <mail at christopherwilkinson.eu> wrote:
>You mean 1988 and 1990.
>Yes?
Yes of course ;-)
Sorry for the typing mistake and thanks for detecting it and allowing 
me to correct.

>On 02 Jul 2012, at 16:10, Daniel Pimienta wrote (CORRECTED):
>
>>I remember having tried stubbornly to convince Intelmatique
>>executives (Intelmatique was the international arm of French
>>Videotex with ambition to export the system abroad) between1988 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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