It’s been almost a year since France Telecom shut down its once widely popular Minitel online services and historians are worried that its legacy is being lost forever. The Computer History Museum in ...

France Telecom said today that it was shutting down its ground-breaking Minitel service, the proto-Internet that brought online shopping and chat rooms into millions of French homes in the 1980s. When ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

*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 Minitel system, which provided online services for millions of people in pre-web days, is to be shut down on Saturday. Set up in 1982 by the French postal service, Minitel allowed many ...

France’s Minitel was a precursor to the internet, decades ahead of its time. At its peak in the mid-1990s, some 20 million people logged on every day. But on Saturday 30 June it's being shut down for ...

After 30 years of service, France’s Minitel information service is shutting down for good. Launched in 1982 by the French state telephone company Poste, Téléphone et Télécommunications (PTT), which ...

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 ...