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agumonkey
on Jan 13, 2022
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Minitel: The Online World France Built Before the ...
I still think it's better for the average people. It's also frugal oriented. You won't have youtube or google maps but for simple searches or orders I think it was peak. Just give it a speed bump and you're good.
jacquesm
on Jan 13, 2022
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Zero eye candy, and 1KB pages. Imagine how fast those would load on today's hardware.
champtar
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8 colors is plenty eye candy :)
agumonkey
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all solar powered on an esp32 thingie
southerntofu
on Jan 14, 2022
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ESP32 is way too powerful compared to a Minitel. They had zero processing power and simply drew to the screen whatever was typed/received.
agumonkey
on Jan 14, 2022
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then it will host 128 virtual minitels to dispatch onto attiny85 oled displays
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