[ih] GOSIP & compliance

[Bob Purvy]

> The problem with Minitel wasn't actually the PTT - they actually wanted
to make it more open and Internet-like. The problem was the traditional
publishing industry that feared the online small ads and marketplaces,
and successfully lobbied for all kinds of restrictions.

I never heard that. Interesting.

One still wonders why the other European PTTs didn't do their own and
interoperate with Minitel. Too much NIH?

I recall reading research papers back then on "videotex" (a term you don't
hear anymore). I think there were lots of research efforts on it, but it
never went beyond small trials.

IIRC. Probably someone here knows the full story.

On Sun, Mar 20, 2022 at 2:01 AM Johan Helsingius via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> On 19/03/2022 23:37, Bob Purvy via Internet-history wrote:
>
> > By the way, the Minitel *did* ring all the bells. I used one in Paris in
> > 1989. It was pretty nice, and they had the revenue model down pat. It was
> > only the PTT's ineptitude, slowth, and narrow-mindedness that kept that
> > from taking off and selling the OSI model. They didn't even try.
>
> The problem with Minitel wasn't actually the PTT - they actually wanted
> to make it more open and Internet-like. The problem was the traditional
> publishing industry that feared the online small ads and marketplaces,
> and successfully lobbied for all kinds of restrictions.
>
>         Julf
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