Posted Dec 11, 2019, 5:03 PM
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Unapologetic Occidental
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Province 2, Canadian Empire
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Originally Posted by mousquet
There was some related tech that was developed in France as of the 1980s, before the internet protocol was made available to the general public sometime by the early or mid 90s.
So, it was based on some ancient dial-up connection of some kind, just like the early general public internet of the 1990s, then people had these little terminals connected to their old phone lines.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel
We find it funny. They sometimes make fun of it here nowadays, like - damn, we could've done better when the US eventually developed the internet.
But it seems it wasn't so bad back then after all. Regular people in the US had nothing like this back then, right? It was probably something.
Anyway, yeah, the concept of online shopping is nothing much new. At least to us. |
People here used to make fun of that all the time due to the constant references to "Minitel 3615 blablabla..." on TV shows imported from France.
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