Is this just me or are we getting more and more articles about the Minitel on HN these days?
Maybe the issues with net neutrality push people into history. Similarly there were Ethernet stories last week.
(If any are unfamiliar, Archer's subscription to Minitel is a running joke in the series)
As an older user, I'd love it if we could figure out a way to resurrect Minitel/Teletext and use it as a way of routing around the damage that is coming from the political classes.
The Minitel was the archetype of service centralization with a single hardware provider. Hardly a good case for Net neutrality.
Today, 35 years after with what we know, with a deregulated telco environment, with internet protocols and corresponding hardware, sure, the Minitel is not ideal for net neutrality. I think it was still a good step, and looking back, not a too shabby execution either. Now 35 years later, the market brought Android smartphone, which are the new commodity for people to go online.