Re:The Minitel system in France (1988)
by th0ma5 on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @05:05PM
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All the BBSes back in the day were awful, the key thing here is it was a network arguably targeted at normies before many other things like the web. Maybe AOL eventually too sure, but Compuserve was way more expensive and not a everyday person thing.
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> All the BBSes back in the day were awful
Remember when Minitel was launched all computers were quite awful. A reasonable one would have an 80-column 25-line monochrome display, while most home computers had 40-columns and 24 or 25 lines (and some color). There were a couple graphics standards, such as Tek 4010/4 and ReGIS, but very few terminals supported them.