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June 15, 2012 12:00 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/YCeoe8FR5Y4/minitel-goes-dark.html
Minitel goes dark
The last 800,000 Minitel terminals in France will go dark this month, as the service is finally shut down. Minitel was a proprietary network service that used "free" dumb terminals to access online services, typically at a small fee for each use. Minitel was much loved by business because every use generated revenue for them, [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/YCeoe8FR5Y4/minitel-goes-dark.html
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