Let's keep in mind the minitel was launched in the early 80s, a long long time before the www. And by the 1990s websites design, it wasn't that ugly (most 56k m

Let's keep in mind the minitel was launched in the early 80s, a long long time before the www. And by the 1990s websites design, it wasn't that ugly (most 56k modems also acted as minitel clients so you could use it on your computer). It's only by the mid 2000s that it became obsolete as the www became mainstream.