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France Will Switch Off Pioneering Minitel After 30 Years | paidContent

It was the internet before the internet.

Now France’s Minitel, a pioneering Videotex information service used by 25 million people at its height, will be switched off after 30 years online.

via paidcontent.org

McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: If This Fusion Restaurant’s Website Could Talk.

HEY HEY HEY! Watch this slide show! LOOK! We have modern chairs and minimalist light fixtures!! LOOK! It’s an orchid floating in a pool at sunset! Want to hear some DANCE MUSIC? Mute it any time you like! Just click the animated parakeet flying around the screen! You want to get into the site? Just click the smallest fork!!! DANCE MUSIC!!!!!

via www.mcsweeneys.net

I love this imagined dialogue and in all seriousness it is exactly why the NearSay Marketplace is there to help confused restaurant sites everywhere share their news in a better way.