reminds me of Minitel. France had online services for a lot of daily life back in 1982. Britain's equivalents weren't as good, but still miles ahead of America for about a decade, until the late 90s Web boom.

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dash2 18 hours ago | parent [-]

I don't remember Britain having any online services before the web, what are you referring to? There was Ceefax....

	▲	Sophira 15 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		We had Prestel and Micronet (a form of viewdata; Micronet was hosted on Prestel, but was frequently the reason people signed up for Prestel in the first place), and there were also individual BBSes available. Of course, we also paid for local calls so things never got as popular as they were in the US.
	▲	flir 16 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I think that would be Prestel. The fact that you don't remember it probably tells you all you need to know...