"Minitel" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1995 September, Richard Barbrook, Andy Cameron, “The Californian Ideology”, in Mute, volume 1, number 3, →ISSN:",
          "text": "The lesson of MINITEL is that hypermedia within Europe should be developed as a hybrid of state intervention, capitalist entrepreneurship and d.i.y. culture.",
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          "text": "Minitel was a computer terminal. It housed a screen, a keyboard, and a modem—but not a microprocessor. Instead of computing on its own, Minitel connected to remote services via uplink, like a 1960s mainframe or a modern Google Chromebook. Terminals were given out, for free, to every French telephone subscriber by the state (which also ran the phone company).",
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        "A French videotex service utilising the telephone network, popular before and alongside the World Wide Web."
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        "(historical) A French videotex service utilising the telephone network, popular before and alongside the World Wide Web."
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