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Compared to the internet, the Minitel lacked infrastructure: The Minitel was inherently Peer-To-Peer but only one peer at a time.
by phh 6y ago
Compared to the internet, the Minitel lacked infrastructure:
The Minitel was inherently Peer-To-Peer but only one peer at a time.
- philprx 6y agoSorry, I find that statement quite imprecise: you could connect to a single server at a time, just like a browser tab connects you to only one service at a time (even if it uses many libraries from many other http servers), so if you mean peer to peer this way, then yes. But then to do that, it connected to a massive infrastructure that was there and running with very high availability constraints, ... for the time ;-)