Minitel : welcome to the internet
The first scholarly book in English on Minitel, the pioneering French computer network, offers a history of a technical system and a cultural phenomenon.
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Langue: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England : The MIT Press,
[2017]
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| Titres liés à la collection: | Platform studies
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| Sujets: | Technology and state Minitel (Videotex system) Technology and state-France-History-20th century Technology and state-France-History-21st century Electronic books |
| Description matérielle: | 1 Online-Ressource (x, 226 Seiten) |
| Résumé: | The first scholarly book in English on Minitel, the pioneering French computer network, offers a history of a technical system and a cultural phenomenon. Intro -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1 A Tale of Two Parties -- What Do We Mean When We Say Minitel? -- How Did Minitel Grow over Time? -- Was Minitel Completely Controlled by the Government? -- What Are We Talking about When We Talk about "Platforms"? -- How Do We Know What We Know about the Minitel Platform? -- Learning from Minitel -- 2 Disaggregating the Minitel Platform -- Disaggregating the Minitel Platform -- Discovering Minitel -- Les terminaux -- Les serveurs -- Les réseaux -- Conclusion -- 3 Embedding Culture in Architecture -- French Political Tradition of Centralization -- The Plan to Digitize France -- Centralization in the Architecture of Minitel -- Centralization and Economies of Scale -- Centralization and Billing/Accounting -- Centralization and Speech -- Conclusion -- 4 Not End to End, but Open -- A Novel Hybrid Architecture -- Catalyzing the Development of a Domestic Computing Industry -- Challenges Facing the Domestic Hardware Industry -- Venture Capitalism à la Française -- Walled Gardens, Gated Communities, and Shades of Openness -- Conclusion -- 5 The Booming Minitel Private Enterprise -- Minitel Rose -- Digital Innovations -- Cultures of Minitel -- 6 On the Fringe -- Fringe Uses within Minitel/Télétel: The Entrepreneurs -- Fringe Uses within Minitel/Télétel: The Users -- Fringe Uses Outside Télétel: "The Whiff of a Lonely Nerd's Hangout" -- Conclusion -- 7 Conclusion -- Appendix: Currency Conversion Table -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 Online-Ressource (x, 226 Seiten) Illustrationen, Diagramme |
| ISBN: | 9780262340205 0262340208 9780262036221 0262036223 |