Four third album confirmations for 2007!

[aFrenchie]

Originally Posted by jaco

Are they still using minitel or something?? 3615-Alizee?

You've heard of the Minitel??? Where are you from?

[Cooney]

Originally Posted by aFrenchie

You've heard of the Minitel??? Where are you from?

Hehe, when I was in Highschool, 1996-2000, our French text-books had a couple pages dedicated to the Minitel and its uses. It was taught to us as basically a French form of the internet, though obviously that is not entirely accurate.

[jaco]

Originally Posted by aFrenchie

You've heard of the Minitel??? Where are you from?

I'm Dutch. Since I studied computer science I learned about it in some course about the history of the internet

[RMJ]

Originally Posted by aFrenchie

You've heard of the Minitel??? Where are you from?

Doesn't everyone know it ?

We didn't have it here, tho... just BBSs. Minitel woulda been much cooler, tho !

[aFrenchie]

Originally Posted by jaco

I'm Dutch. Since I studied computer science I learned about it in some course about the history of the internet

It started back in 1982 and had nothing to do with the internet of course.

Originally Posted by RMJ

Doesn't everyone know it ?

I thought it was in function only in France?

[jaco]

Originally Posted by aFrenchie

It started back in 1982 and had nothing to do with the internet of course.

I thought it was in function only in France?

I realise that, but it was mentioned in the class an example of network technology being adopted early on before the www existed. The wikipedia article you linked to says it was deployed in several other countries too.

[nurvonic]

Originally Posted by Snatcher42

The domain is owned by Laurent Boutonnat and Requiem Publishing, according to WHOIS, so her new one will probably be at a different address. But I agree with aFrenchie that it might not be a first priority. Mylene Farmer doesn't even have a website, and Jérémy's wasn't updated with info about his second album until promotion in other mediums started. Also many other French artists have rather limited and modest websites just following templates by their record labels.

ooo never thought of that. so true!! what would the new domain be?

i think you own a domain for 10 years or something like that, so i dont think moi-alizee.com is coming back up especially if Boutonnat owns it.

[RMJ]

Originally Posted by aFrenchie

I thought it was in function only in France?

There was minitel networks outside France, too. Especially in the countries next to France. But yea, it was mostly used in France.

But even the States had their own version of it. Never popular, tho.

And even if someone didn't have it, it should be known since it's part of the computer history. It's just as important as BBSes or internet.