Minitel has been kept on life support for many many years for a very specific service: Teleroute, a european freight exchange. Since about 2003, a website exist

Minitel has been kept on life support for many many years for a very specific service: Teleroute, a european freight exchange. Since about 2003, a website existed but French small transporters were very, very slow to move to the web. As it was a pay as you go, it was a cash machine for FT/orange (and marginally for Teleroute) we had to keep the minitel infrastructure alive and in sync with the website and rest apis. Mixing state of the art webservices and decade old infrastructure was a nice challenge. The thing we dread the most: having to change graphical elements in videotex format.