Talk:Minitel

message: Hi.  There is a good picture of the first Minitel terminal on this page, but wouldn't it be great if there was successive models shown?  How about some screenshots of various services?
SAPETIFONFAPAPA  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.41.198.182 (talk) 13:53, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Minitel

message: Clicking on the UK Minitel link in External links, I found this editorial:
 
====The MINITEL.FR service will close by the end of 2006.====
Our customers owning a loaded account will be able to use it to connect to Minitel services until December 31st 2006, when the service will end for good. 
Is this true?
Evidently not--I used it today! 86.72.133.206 20:20, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The Orange Minitel internet gateway was discontinued, but not Minitel itself. An internet gateway remains here, although I believe it is only available to France Telecom subscribers. -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 15:34, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Now it is dicontinued, since 2012.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.250.164.254 (talk) 18:30, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  MINITEL.FR 

message: Our customers owning a loaded account will be able to use it to connect to Minitel services until December 31st 2006, when the service will end for good. 
Is this true?
Evidently not--I used it today! 86.72.133.206 20:20, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The Orange Minitel internet gateway was discontinued, but not Minitel itself. An internet gateway remains here, although I believe it is only available to France Telecom subscribers. -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 15:34, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Now it is dicontinued, since 2012.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.250.164.254 (talk) 18:30, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: The MINITEL.FR service will close by the end of 2006.

message: What type of technology is used server side?  What OS (Unix, VMS, etc.)? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.118.72.85 (talk) 19:29, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Here's one:   68.113.47.180 19:09, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Server Side? 

message: Was the Minitel deployed in the French territories? 71.93.238.212 21:35, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Used in French Territories? 

message: France Telecom deployed Minitel in the United States. Dial-up ports were available in most major U.S. cities. This was separate from the US West and "101 Online" US services; it was actual French Minitel, interconnected with the system in France.  I once had an account on it, and could chat with people in France.  Does anyone have further data? --John Nagle (talk) 17:06, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Minitel deployment in the United States 

message: It seems confusing that the list includes both Minitel and systems that are deemed to be “like” Minitel in the one list - many things are like other things, but completely different nonetheless. Windows and Mac OS are both graphical user interface computer operating systems, but you wouldn’t put one in a list of deployments of the other. Minitel is Minitel, Prestel is Prestel: Prestel isn’t a variety, implementation or incidence of Minitel, it was merely a different thing with a similar purpose. As Minitel is a specific technology, surely it isn’t appropriate in a discussion of that tech to just lump it with other similar technologies? Jock123 (talk) 13:11, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: No, it was true. It was in Belgium too, and it wasn't a "minitel-like". Look at this photo, if it's not a Minitel.
https://www.rtbf.be/info/societe/detail_minitel-on-coupe-tout-a-23h59?id=7797139  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.250.164.254 (talk) 18:52, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Minitel in other countries 

message: Minitel: The rise and fall of the France-wide web. BBC. 27 June 2012. From the article: 
:And so on Saturday, exactly 30 years after it was launched, the Minitel is bowing out. After that, the little beige box will answer no more. ...
:Rolled out experimentally in Brittany, Minitel went national in 1982, offering the telephone directory and not much else. ...
:"It meant that nothing new could ever happen. Basically, Minitel innovated from 1978 to 1982, and then it stopped," he says.
The article might mention that it was rolled out first in 1978 in Brittany. --Timeshifter (talk) 05:07, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: -Jeff Ogden (W163) (talk) 18:54, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks! --Timeshifter (talk) 00:36, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Minitel shutting down June 30, 2012 

message: In the early 1980s (as a representative of the Minneapolis, MN, newspapers) involved in a Minitel project aimed at upper midwest farmers run by what-is-now US Bank. I was only involved in the pre-production phases, and I don't recall how long it lasted or how (un)successful it was.
StevePoulter (talk) 22:27, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Minitel in the U.S. 

message: This article says nothing about the use of this service for phone sex, which was one of the major reasons for its popularity in France. See :fr:Minitel Rose. Chubbles (talk) 19:46, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed, that should be added, if that was a driving factor for the adoption of the technology.  Alas, I don't know enough about it nor understand French. --Surv1v4l1st (Talk|Contribs)  20:25, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Minitel Rose 

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message: I think the article should conclude with a paragraph or so regarding the decisions that led to shutting down Minitel, placed before the See Also section. Clearly the rise of the Internet, especially high-speed Internet was an influence, but what else went into the decision to wind things down for this service? Nutster (talk) 16:49, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shutdown decision 

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