Minitel: The rise and fall of the France-wide webFrance is switching off its groundbreaking Minitel service which brought online banking, travel reservations, and porn to millions of users in the 1980s. But then came the worldwide web. Minitel has been slowly dying and the plug will be pulled on Saturday. Many years ago, long before the birth of the web, there was a time when France was the happening-est place in the digital universe. What the T
