It might be hard to believe today but France was once riding the technology wave, with millions of users surfing a prehistoric black-and-white version of the Web with a device called the Minitel. The ...

When I was in high school in the mid-1990s, I got to spend a few weeks with my French extended family at their country house east of Paris. Nearly each night, I watched my uncle stare into a small, ...

(IDG) -- Three years ago, brash young Internet companies scoffed at Minitel. France Telecom's text-based online service, which offers travel reservations, banking and dating services, reeked of the ...

In 1991, most Americans had not yet heard of the internet. But all of France was online, buying, selling, gaming, and chatting, thanks to a ubiquitous little box that connected to the telephone. It ...

France pulls the plug on the Minitel this weekend, a home — grown precursor of the Internet which brought on — line banking, travel reservations and even sex chats to millions a decade before the ...

Before there was AOL, Amazon, Groupon, Google, Facebook, Yahoo! or any of today’s other Internet titans, there was the Minitel: the boxy little terminal that allowed French clients to access a wide ...

PARIS -- In October 2000, France Telecom ran its most expensive publicity campaign ever for a technology considered cutting-edge when Ronald Reagan was in the White House and Pac-Man and Asteroids ...

*Fantastic that there are still so many of those running. Not for much longer, though. *France has historically been a huge source of many ingenious media devices overwhelmed by competitors. This was ...

France's ageing Minitel network has been given a new lease of life by hooking it up to the internet, as BBC ClickOnline's David Reid reports. Minitel: Quaint relic or modern business tool? Minitel may ...

France is switching off its groundbreaking Minitel service which brought online banking, travel reservations, and porn to millions of users in the 1980s. But then came the worldwide web. Minitel has ...