Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, March 09 2013 @ 01:01 PM EST |
Had a minitel back over in 83. Could order online from La Redoute a
Roubaix. At the same time our Finance depth was experimenting with
Visicalc on an Apple// to make sense of reports obtained from the
B6700 mainframe... and we were manufacturing 8086-based
programmable terminals.
I'd say we're back there. Chrome. But much better networks and
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Authored by: JamesK on Saturday, March 09 2013 @ 03:28 PM EST |
There was also Prestel in the UK and Telidon in Canada. Telidon was
technically more advanced than the others and used vector
graphics.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, March 09 2013 @ 11:14 PM EST |
>This may be a serious source for prior art in software use, albeit in
French.
Inasmuch as the residents suffer from a severe case on monolingualism, any data
provided from experience with Minitel would be utterly useless, because they
would be unable to use Google Translate to convert it into English, much less
read the original French.
The natural result of an educational system that promotes, encourages, and
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, March 10 2013 @ 09:19 AM EDT |
I worked in France for two years between 1990 and 1992. The minitel box was in
constant use for jobs that would nowadays be done on a web browser. Granted that
the graphics were very limited and a data download rate slow, but it "did
what is said on the tin". It was like the UK Prestel, but much more
comprehensive in its operations. The keyboard was like a that found on a small
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