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I currently work for the person who helped start US Videotel and I still haven't scratched much of the surface about all of it with him. Everything about Minit

by ulkesh 5y ago

I currently work for the person who helped start US Videotel and I still haven't scratched much of the surface about all of it with him. Everything about Minitel and US Videotel reminds me of what was depicted in seasons 2 and 3 of Halt and Catch Fire. I always wondered if Minitel was their inspiration for the Mutiny software.

wmf 5y ago
To me Mutiny looks like Lucasfilm Habitat down to the UI and C64 platform. https://twitter.com/wwwploguecom/status/628896016381685760 https://twitter.com/wwwploguecom/status/628896016381685760 http://www.fudco.com/chip/lessons.html http://www.fudco.com/chip/lessons.html
- ulkesh 5y ago
  Ah, didn't know about that. The concepts seem to be very similar, though. In US Videotel at least, there was a community function in addition to the various other functions the system provided (stocks, weather, etc). Thanks for the info!
- kingcharles 5y ago
  This reminds me of Microsoft Comic Chat, arguably the greatest contribution Microsoft made to computer science: https://chrisgliddon.com/a-trip-down-memory-lane-microsoft-comic-chat-6f23b8a64295 https://chrisgliddon.com/a-trip-down-memory-lane-microsoft-c...