Minitel: Welcome to the Internet

by Julien Mailland and Kevin Driscoll

Book Overview

The first scholarly book in English on Minitel, the pioneering French computer network, offers a history of a technical system and a cultural phenomenon.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262537753
• ISBN13: 9780262537759
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher