To give some numbers: By 1988 three million terminals were installed, with 100,000 new units installed monthly. The telephone directory received 23 million cal

To give some numbers: By 1988 three million terminals were installed, with 100,000 new units installed monthly. The telephone directory received 23 million calls monthly, with 40,000 updates daily. About 6,000 other services were available, with 250 added monthly. France Télécom estimated that almost 9 million terminals—including web-enabled personal computers (Windows, Mac OS, and Linux)—had access to the network at the end of 1999, and that it was used by 25 million people (of a total population of 60 million). Developed by 10,000 companies, in 1996, almost 26,000 different services were available. [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel A similar (yet not nearly as successful as Minitel) service existed in Germany (BTX [1]), and I remember my uncle still using it for online banking in 2005 (it was officially shut down in 2001, but online banking continued to work until around 10 years ago). He used a special software for Windows 98 which acted as a kind of BTX browser, so for around 10 years he used BTX and the Internet in parallel, on the same machine. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bildschirmtext https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bildschirmtext