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Platform Studies: Minitel : Welcome to the Internet by Kevin Driscoll and Julien Mailland (2017, Hardcover)

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The first scholarly book in English on Minitel, the pioneering French computer network, offers a history of a technical system and a cultural phenomenon. A decade before the Internet became a medium for the masses in the United States, tens of millions of users in France had access to a network for e-mail, e-commerce, chat, research, game playing, blogging, and even an early form of online porn. In 1983, the French government rolled out Minitel, a computer network that achieved widespread adoption in just a few years as the government distributed free terminals to every French telephone subscriber. With this volume, Julien Mailland and Kevin Driscoll offer the first scholarly book in English on Minitel, examining it as both a technical system and a cultural phenomenon. Mailland and Driscoll argue that Minitel was a technical marvel, a commercial success, and an ambitious social experiment. Other early networks may have introduced protocols and software standards that continue to be used today, but Minitel foretold the social effects of widespread telecomputing. They examine the unique balance of forces that enabled the growth of Minitel- public and private, open and closed, centralized and decentralized. Mailland and Driscoll describe Minitel's key technological components, novel online services, and thriving virtual communities. Despite the seemingly tight grip of the state, however, a lively Minitel culture emerged, characterized by spontaneity, imagination, and creativity. After three decades of continuous service, Minitel was shut down in 2012, but the history of Minitel should continue to inform our thinking about Internet policy, today and into the future.

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Publisher
MIT Press
ISBN-10
0262036223
ISBN-13
9780262036221
eBay Product ID (ePID)
229676058

Product Key Features

Author
Julien Mailland, Kevin Driscoll
Publication Name
Minitel : Welcome to the Internet
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Series
Platform Studies
Publication Year
2017
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
240 Pages

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Item Length
9.3in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
6.2in
Item Weight
16.8 Oz

Additional Product Features

Age Range
18
Lc Classification Number
Qa76.57.M55m35 2017
Copyright Date
2017
Target Audience
Trade
Topic
Internet / General, Europe / France, Public Policy / Science & Technology Policy, General
Lccn
2016-042225
Dewey Decimal
384.33
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Computers, Law, History, Political Science

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