Notice bibliographique
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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Mailland, Julien
Driscoll, Kevin
Titre(s) : Minitel [Texte imprimé] : welcome to the Internet / Julien Mailland and Kevin Driscoll
Publication : Cambridge, Mass. : the MIT press, cop. 2017
Description matérielle : x, 226 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Collection : Platform studies
Lien à la collection : Platfom studies
Comprend : A tale of two parties ; Disaggregating the Minitel platform ; Embedding culture
in architecture ; Not end to end, but open ; The booming Minitel private enterprise
; On the fringe.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
A decade before the Internet became a medium for the masses in the United States,
tens of millions of users in France had access to a network for e-mail, e-commerce,
chat, research, game playing, blogging, and even an early form of online porn. In
1983, the French government rolled out Minitel, a computer network that achieved widespread
adoption in just a few years as the government distributed free terminals to every
French telephone subscriber. With this volume, Julien Mailland and Kevin Driscoll
offer the first scholarly book in English on Minitel, examining it as both a technical
system and a cultural phenomenon. Mailland and Driscoll argue that Minitel was a technical
marvel, a commercial success, and an ambitious social experiment. Other early networks
may have introduced protocols and software standards that continue to be used today,
but Minitel foretold the social effects of widespread telecomputing. They examine
the unique balance of forces that enabled the growth of Minitel: public and private,
open and closed, centralized and decentralized. Mailland and Driscoll describe Minitel's
key technological components, novel online services, and thriving virtual communities.
Despite the seemingly tight grip of the state, however, a lively Minitel culture emerged,
characterized by spontaneity, imagination, and creativity. After three decades of
continuous service, Minitel was shut down in 2012, but the history of Minitel should
continue to inform our thinking about Internet policy, today and into the future
Sujet(s) : Minitel (terminal vidéotex) -- Histoire
Télécommunications -- France -- 1970-....
Indice(s) Dewey :
384.330 944 (23e éd.) = Télématique (communications) - Activités et services - France
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780262036221. - ISBN 0262036223
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb453649669
Notice n° :
FRBNF45364966
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