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Re:Minitel – The Rise and Fall of a National Tech Treasure [... by digi_owl on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @01:27PM (#16267613)
The early days of European internet was similarly metered.

Very few nations had anything like the US system of local calls being free.

Only with the advent of DSL etc did flat fee net connections become "common".

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Re:Minitel – The Rise and Fall of a National Tech Treasure [... by candiodari on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @07:27PM (#16270348)
But minitel was different, the charge depended on the site you were on, and to some extent the charge was shared with the site.

All sites on minitel were like premium-rate phone numbers, differently priced ones.

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Re:Minitel – The Rise and Fall of a National Tech Treasure [... by digi_owl on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @10:58PM (#16271161)
So something akin to BBSs with a central registry?
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Re:Minitel – The Rise and Fall of a National Tech Treasure [... by candiodari on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @10:45AM (#16274703)
Something like the BBSes on premium numbers.
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