minitel · name — A French videotex service utilising the telephone network, popular before and alongside the World Wide Web.
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minitel is pronounced /ˈmɪniˌtɛl/.
Etymology
From French Minitel.
name
- A French videotex service utilising the telephone network, popular before and alongside the World Wide Web.e.g.“The lesson of MINITEL is that hypermedia within Europe should be developed as a hybrid of state intervention, capitalist entrepreneurship and d.i.y. culture.” — 1995 September, Richard Barbrook, Andy Cameron, “The Californian Ideology”, in Mute, volume 1, number 3, →ISSN, archived from the original on 19 Oct 2021:
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