I remember that in Italy there were a lot of minitels and what was impressive was that there were minitel pages where you could buy services, it was pretty impr

I remember that in Italy there were a lot of minitels and what was impressive was that there were minitel pages where you could buy services, it was pretty impressive and the "chat" page was full of people. I remember I was a bit shocked when a few years later no body was using it anymore... I wonder why it failed even before the internet started to be widely used.