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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

In 1982, years before the world wide web, came the Minitel. It was a French videotex system, a way for users to get information, look up telephone numbers, and make purchases through a phone line. By ...

France Telecom switches off the once popular service provided via terminals as the country waxes nostalgic for technologies past. By Rebecca Leffler Computers Laptops iPads - H 2012 PARIS – France ...

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 ...

Its famous "Minitel Rose" sex chat lines were blamed for the astronomical phone bills of many unwitting customers. Originally designed by France Telecom as an online directory to save paper, the ...

I knew the game was up well before Jacques Chirac tried to boost national moral during his first mandate by saying during a televised speech something along the lines of; “And although, my compatriots ...