Tag Archives: minitel

Eureka is the name of a Minitel RTC server who worked in Rennes from 1992 to 1995.

The first issue of Minitel Magazine (January/February 1984), via.

EDTA, a Minitel server

Justine de Sade. Minitel adaptation made by JET7 (Stephen Belfond and Sophie Marin). Watch the flash version here.

Pinky was a hobbyist Minitel micro server, 1986-1992. It received around 30,000 calls. It ran on Atari ST and Telestrat.

Minitel Japan

Eduardo Kac, Tesão, 1985/86 – Videotex (minitel) animated poem.

When François Mitterrand was elected president in France 1981, they revealed it with a Minitel animation slowly drawing this portrait line by line.

3615 Ulla was a Minitel microserver for dating and chatting, part of the so-called pink Minitel. It was one of the most popular Minitel services.

(post updated 2024)

Antiope (1976/1979) was the French competitor to the British teletext standard. Antiope used a higher data rate, dynamic page sizes, custom fonts, and generally more sophisticated graphics, although some of these features were introduced later in the 1980s.

According to the French, it was not as “crude and old fashioned” as British teletext. Nevertheless, the British won the the standardization war and proclaimed World System Teletext, while Antipoe was used for Teletel (better known as Minitel).

Some images from here.

Post updated in 2024.