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Computer History Museum Wants to Preserve Minitel History

Posted by timothy on from the barn-full-of-compuserve-artifacts-too dept.

coondoggie writes "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 from a preservationist point of view is being lost forever. The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA., naturally wants to collect and preserve all manner of industry historical artifacts, and Minitel is one of the central components of its 'Revolution: The First 2000 Years of Computing' exhibit."

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  1. Re:Minitel and trumpet winsock. by PolygamousRanchKid+ · · Score: 4, Informative

    The German Post Office and Telecom offered a similar service called Bildschirmtext (Btx): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bildschirmtext

    That system eventually evolved into the T-Online ISP in Germany. So it wasn't entirely a dead end.

    . . . and the access nodes for the system were running . . . wait for it . . . OS/2!

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