Minitel "saved" by hackers?

[The Deviant]

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On Fri, 12 Jul 1996, Deranged Mutant wrote:

> Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 07:55:12 +0000
> From: Deranged Mutant <WlkngOwl at unix.asb.com>
> To: Daniel Salber <daniel.salber at imag.fr>
> Cc: cypherpunks at toad.com
> Subject: Re: Minitel "saved" by hackers?
> 
> On 12 Jul 96 at 5:51, Daniel Salber wrote:
> [..]
> > As Minow pointed out, this is not the only case of "hijacking". The
> > telephone was first intended as a way to listen to remote concerts. Then
> > users found out they could use it for one-to-one conversations.
> 
> This is innacurate. No, methinks it's wrong.  From every history of 
> telephones I have read and heard, it was never that way.
> 
> The original conception was of using the telephone for broadcasting. 
> It's implementation in most countries was for point-to-point 
> communication... it wasn't a matter of the users 'found they could 
> use it' (at least not in the US).
> 
[SIG skipped]

Umm.. check again... Bell origonally conceived the telephone as a means of
broadband communication, like radio is today.  Bruce Sterling explains
this exceptionally well in his book "The Hacker Crackdown" (Nonfiction)

 -- Deviant

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