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Schluss For Germany's Oldest Online Service

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the in-den-sauren-apfel-beissen-m�ssen dept.

Rolo Tomasi writes: "Germany's first online service, BTX (Bildschirmtext) is shutting down. BTX had a history of major security flaws, which made the Chaos Computer Club famous." Non-speakers might want to try a translation.

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  1. Re:Another one gone, another one gone... by -brazil- · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This isn't business news, it's tech history. It's not a company going down, it's a service which predated public use of the Internet, but was eventually superseded it.

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