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moodr1ng · 11 months

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just learned the other day that minitels DO still work in france and i own one (its just been sitting here as decoration bc i thought it wasnt useable lol) and now i sooo wanna try it but my place doesnt have a landline outlet.. smh..

#97 #minitels were terminals connecting to an online network thru telephone lines and basically they were an early attempt at the world wide web #they were only really popular in france and failed in most other places or were never introduced #hence the need to give context lol #i believed the network no longer existed but as it turns out #they just took off the services/numbers you could connect to #but there are still people providing the services themselves its just no longer a big corporation #and ppl also have made it possible to connect them to the internet??#sooo insane. i need to figure out how to get an outlet adapter

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