Using the Minitel Experience to Build the Future of Interactive Online Media

Published on May 1, 2017

From the Interactive Media & Games Seminar Series; Julien Mailland, an assistant professor of telecommunications at Indiana University's Media School and a Research Scholar with the Computer History Museum's Internet History Program focuses on the technical architecture of Minitel and the policy decisions that enabled a boom of private services atop the platform, leading to an ecosystem of over 25,000 private sites before the World Wide Web was invented and the Internet privatized.