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Re:Minitel – The Rise and Fall of a National Tech Treasure [... by M_Bakhtiari on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @07:42AM (#16264771)
>Minitel: what should have been a cautionary tale. Allowing "service providers" to charge money for every last little thing anyone does on a service

Which reminds me, that's also one of the rules of Project Xanadu: http://xanadu.com.au/general/faq.html#2

I wonder if that had turned out the same way had it ever been completed (or shall I say whether it will turn out the same way if it's ever completed?)

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Re:Minitel – The Rise and Fall of a National Tech Treasure [... by walshemj on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @08:43AM (#16265167)
yep that's why services that charged for every last thing didn't take off
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