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The End of Minitel

Posted by Hemos on

ZeldorBlat writes "The French Minitel service is closing it's doors at the end of today. Started in 1982, Minitel provides several services now widely available on the web including phone listings, train ticketing, and many other third-party content. Many prefered it to the web for it's simplicity and perceived security. The system is to be replaced with Le Compte Achats, available to businesses only. The notice can be found here."

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  1. Wrong ! by alexhs · · Score: 4, Informative
    FTFNotice :

    To allow you to access to the Minitel services you need, in 2007, we suggest another of our products : Le Compte Achats. Minitel services haven't been closed, web-based "minitelfr" allowing access to Minitel services from the Internet has been. Minitel like BSD still is dying but not dead yet.
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  2. The End?? by 4D6963 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Hold on, the end of the Minitel? Nothing less? Because when I look at the main Minitel page there is no such thing. Plus it seems to me that if the Minitel network would stop working I would have heard about it quite a lot from my family, on TV and I'm sure we would have returned the terminal to France Télécom, not to mention that the Slashdot article would have been edited.

    It rather seems that the news is rather about some particular online (on the web) service, not the end of the network itselves.

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