Comment on I hate how anything without "world" in its name is just about the US

buzz86us@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Mubelotix@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Heavily inspired by the french Minitel but yes

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  • Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Heavily inspired by the Sumerian cuneiform but yes

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  • GamingChairModel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Minitel launched in 1982, well after work had begun on interconnections between different computer networks, using the predecessor protocols to TCP/IP and what would become the addressing/domain name system. Minitel launched on protocols that were ultimately incompatible with the rest of the Internet, and didn’t have an easy way to actually get joined in.

    Minitel was more of an alternative internet than it was the inspiration for the migration of the internet to becoming a HTTP/www-centered network.

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