After 30 years of service, France’s Minitel information service is shutting down for good. Launched in 1982 by the French state telephone company Poste, Téléphone et Télécommunications (PTT), which ...

France's Minitel system, which provided online services for millions of people in pre-web days, is to be shut down on Saturday. Set up in 1982 by the French postal service, Minitel allowed many ...

When I was in high school in the mid-1990s, I got to spend a few weeks with my French extended family at their country house east of Paris. Nearly each night, I watched my uncle stare into a small, ...

In 1982, years before the world wide web, came the Minitel. It was a French videotex system, a way for users to get information, look up telephone numbers, and make purchases through a phone line. By ...

France’s Minitel was a precursor to the internet, decades ahead of its time. At its peak in the mid-1990s, some 20 million people logged on every day. But on Saturday 30 June it's being shut down for ...

France Telecom switches off the once popular service provided via terminals as the country waxes nostalgic for technologies past. By Rebecca Leffler Computers Laptops iPads - H 2012 PARIS – France ...

France will halt this weekend the Minitel service, a home-grown precursor of internet services like on-line banking, travel reservations and even sex chats. By its peak in the late 1990s, some 25 ...

Thirty years ago, France led the world into the 21st century, but the world hardly noticed. In 1981-82, two French inventions offered a glimpse of the future. One was the Train à Grande Vitesse (TGV) ...

France's ageing Minitel network has been given a new lease of life by hooking it up to the internet, as BBC ClickOnline's David Reid reports. Minitel: Quaint relic or modern business tool? Minitel may ...