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I was 16 years old. It was 1986 I believe. With my twin brother we discovered the Minitel in our parents's bedroom. We spend all evenings on the minitel after class. Boy it was fun ! We had 'special' codes so we did not pay as much as adults. And we chat with Men (we pretended to a woman). We laught at every kinky sentence they made to us. It was like a writing experience. We chatted with 8 men at th ame time.

Hopefully we never told our parents aout what we were doing.. It was my first dating App experience. 10 years before having a Web connexion.

Imagine : - All french citizen had a free minitel device (like a mini computer). It was amitious for sure... - Now the only problem with State driven technological projects : Once it was delivered, Th french telecom did not continue to improve the system. Oterwise, France would have been the center of the Web I supose...

parent tmilard 6 years ago

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