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The web ? We had minitel in France.
by Kuinox 6y ago
The web ? We had minitel in France.
- twic 6y agoAnd the first microcomputer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micral https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micral I only found out about this because its inventor, André Truong, studied at EFREI at around the same time as Pol Pot. Fortunately, Truong was a much better engineer, and did something more constructive with his life.
- msla 6y agoBut not the first personal computer, which was American: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenbak-1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenbak-1
- msla 6y agoMinitel wasn't really the same kind of thing as the Internet or the web.
- masswerk 6y agoHowever, arguably it was closer to where the Web seems to be going now.
- Kuinox 6y agoWhy ?
- msla 6y agoBecause Minitel was a non-extensible (effectively) service run on centralized systems, whereas the Internet is defined by a heterogeneous mix of networks all collaborating to share traffic, any one of which can provide a completely new service at will, without coordinating with anyone else and, more importantly, without asking permission.
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoThat is a totally non-helpful reply. A reply that actually gave some information would be more useful.
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- AnimalMuppet 6y agoHmm. Either I replied to the wrong post, or msla edited it. As it stands now, it is quite informative.
- Kuinox 6y agoHe edited it, but it's still false. In the minitel era, everyone could host a service, you had to get specific equipements, but it was easy to get. What was centralized, was the indexation, people had to know you phone number to dial in your service.
- Kuinox 6y agoIf you replace Minitel by internet, you describe it well too.
- msla 6y agoI just described how Minitel was completely different from the Internet. I guess I don't understand your post.
- Kuinox 6y agoYou said the minitel is centralized which is false. Everyone could host it's service at home. Service discovery was centralized, but everyone could dial in your service if they knew your phone number.