minitel
/ˈmɪniˌtɛl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.24 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A French videotex service utilising the telephone network, popular before and alongside the World Wide Web.
noun
A Minitel terminal
Example Sentences
- "The lesson of MINITEL is that hypermedia within Europe should be developed as a hybrid of state intervention, capitalist entrepreneurship and d.i.y. culture."
- "Minitel was a computer terminal. It housed a screen, a keyboard, and a modem—but not a microprocessor. Instead of computing on its own, Minitel connected to remote services via uplink, like a 1960s mainframe or a modern Google Chromebook. Terminals were given out, for free, to every French telephone subscriber by the state (which also ran the phone company)."
Etymology
From French Minitel.
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: Minitel
Inflected Forms
minitels (plural)