Tag Archives: antiope

Gretel was a Minitel service that was hacked and transformed into one of the earliest chat services around 1982. Video here.

Snapsots from Minitel Rose, the xexy part of the French proto-internet system Minitel. Courtesy of @ViewdataUK and @1010101.

Reabracadabra, an animated Minitel piece by Eduardo Kac from 1985. It was recently restored and Rhizome is now showing it online in Net Art Anthologies. Accompanied by a text by Goto80.

Teletext graphics by Richard Gingras, 1980. This service was called Now and ran on KCET-TV. It was part of a collaboration between CBS, NBC and PBS to test the French Antiope standard for teletext. The project was supported by Télédiffusion de France.

Images from Gingras’ website, which is only partly archived on archive.org. There’s an interview with Gingras about his teletext work here.

Post updated 2024.

Minitel action. Photo by Kevin Driscoll.

Minitel live webcam stream by the Minitel Research Lab, 2011.

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Minitel character set. Photo by Kevin Driscoll.

EDTA (1986-1996) Minitel Micro servers for Amstrad, via

Arduino-connected Minitel by SoranneFr, 2010.

A Minitel prototype presented in 1979, via.