Minitel

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English

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Etymology

From French Minitel.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Minitel

  1. (historical) A French videotex service utilising the telephone network, popular before and alongside the World Wide Web.
    • 1995 September, Richard Barbrook, Andy Cameron, “The Californian Ideology”, in Mute‎, volume 1, number 3, →ISSN:
      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.
    • 2017 June 16, Julien Mailand, “Minitel, the Open Network Before the Internet”, in The Atlantic‎:
      Minitel was a computer terminal. It housed a screen, a keyboard, and a modem—but not a microprocessor. Instead of computing on its own, Minitel connected to remote services via uplink, like a 1960s mainframe or a modern Google Chromebook. Terminals were given out, for free, to every French telephone subscriber by the state (which also ran the phone company).

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French

Alternative forms

Etymology

Abbreviation of Médium interactif par numérisation d’information téléphonique (“Interactive medium for digitized information by telephone”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mi.ni.tɛl/
  • Audio:(file)

Proper noun

Minitel m

  1. (historical) Minitel
    • 2009, William Edmiston, Annie Dumenil, La France contemporaine, Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 286:
      Le Minitel était le premier réseau informatique du monde, créé bien avant Internet (réseau informatique mondial). Au départ, le Minitel était destiné à remplacer l’annuaire téléphonique en papier par l’annuaire électronique, et l’on s’en servait uniquement dans les bureaux de poste.
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