It was not obvious that internet was going to win the market, there were barely any home computers in France vs a few millions minitel, there were pretty much n

It was not obvious that internet was going to win the market, there were barely any home computers in France vs a few millions minitel, there were pretty much no commercial ISP but local non profit ISPs and the national phone operator was raking in huge profit from the minitel and had no incentive to upgrade its inadequate infrastructure.