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Re:Your Path to a $16B exit? Build a J2ME App by pbhjpbhj on Thursday February 20, 2014 @06:37AM (#7270250)
What happened to the French minitel users; where are they now?

Was there a particular social forum that ruled minitel - did it transition to the web?

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Re:Your Path to a $16B exit? Build a J2ME App by sspiff on Thursday February 20, 2014 @07:48AM (#7270469)
Minitel adoption was never as big as with the current Internet, and users didn't suddenly migrate from one to the other. Minitel mostly bled to death as the Internet grew in popularity.
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Re:Your Path to a $16B exit? Build a J2ME App by chiph on Thursday February 20, 2014 @08:48AM (#7270669)
So... the French AOL then.
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Re:Your Path to a $16B exit? Build a J2ME App by jmatthew3 on Thursday February 20, 2014 @09:17AM (#7270802)
More like French BBS scene.
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Re:Your Path to a $16B exit? Build a J2ME App by cgrand-net on Thursday February 20, 2014 @08:14AM (#7270554)
Minitel killer app was the yellow pages. The other predominant usages were mail order and sex chats/porn. Some games too but nothing significant and nothing social, at scale at least.
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