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Facebook and social internet invented in Alsace by DNA




by Christophe » 18/11/11, 10:03

...well almost !

Minitel: how the Latest News of Alsace invented the social Internet

There is all stack 30 years, hacking of the Minitel service of DNA propelled the computer into a new era. An episode today largely forgotten.

Internet history has swept the minitel, an object today synonymous with phone booth or Bi-Bop. Yet, French telematics has simply invented the social uses of the contemporary Internet.

The inaugural scene takes place in Strasbourg there is everything 30 years ago. In the anonymity of the computer service of the Latest News of Alsace (DNA), a team of sorcerer's apprentices programs its service over hacks and requests from its users, and thus creates the first public communication tools. The commercial reign of 3615 and Pink Minitel a few years later will obscure these innocent beginnings.
The first minitel servers

The first telematic terminals are launched for a local experiment in Vélizy in the Ile-de-France in the summer 1981, under the patronage of the Directorate General of Telecommunications (DGT). A few months later, a more modest experiment was launched in a neighborhood in Strasbourg by the DNAs.

At the time, the 3611 and the 3615 do not exist, the Minitel is summarized for users to a single "site" they join by dialing a phone number. Gretel, the Strasbourg site, wants to be a platform of services. News, horoscopes, weather, television and movie programs, train schedules, banking services, and even a few video games are all available.
A kid hackers the system

The concept, similar to that of Velizy, is revolutionary for the time, but horribly annoying. Imagined by technocrats and restrained by the written press that fears to disappear and let it flourish, the Minitel looks as exciting as the weather page of the Parisian. But after a few weeks of launch, in October or November (difficult to determine), a hacking of Gretel will tip the Minitel into a new era.

To help the users in distress, the developers had set up a mail service allowing them to display a message on the screen of the people of their choice. A boy of about ten years (according to the memories of Michel Lancaret who piloted the platform) manages to use this messaging by discovering the password to access it.

He immediately sends a message to his friends indicating the steps to follow to do the same. In a few days, the handling is completely stale and Gretel developers have only one solution: open the messaging function to all users.
The first cat

Messaging is by far the most used service on the platform. Unexpected problems arise. Users acclimate to the keyboard, which is a tool almost new, and multiply 3 or 4 their typing speed. The waiters are dying. The team of Michel Lancaret progresses blindly, at the rate of user requests and finally manages to stabilize a system that displays on one page the usernames all users connected, with a possibility to address live to each. The first chat room was born.

Internet exists since 1969, the mail dates from 1972, the first forums of 1979, but the general public's grip of the network was born in the cold Strasbourg winter of 1981. One has to imagine the dizziness that seized these first users. Connected under a nickname of their choice, they can talk to strangers who are also connected and free themselves from social uses in real life.

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Source Suite: http://www.slate.fr/story/46415/minitel ... net-social
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by Christophe » 29/11/11, 09:23

To stay in the history of social networks, here is an article dating from 2005 about LinkedIn when Facebook was not yet known (we can of course replace LinkedIn by Facebook in the text)

LinkedIn, the Badgers Network
March 10, 2005
By Thierry Klein in: Technologies.

A friend advised me, a few months ago, to register on LinkedIn. It is an online service that offers to connect people. You register, you usually know someone who is registered, who even knows someone who ... etc. It is supposed to facilitate business relations.

What makes the success of this kind of service is a phenomenon of critical mass. The more people, the more useful it is because you will find a contact "close to you", that is to say that the chain of intermediaries to access this contact will remain short. It's easier to contact someone by telling them, "I'm calling you from the machin", that "I'm calling from something, who knows stuff, who knows your boyfriend."

The ambiguity with LinkedIn is that all this is hyper-marketing and everything is done to make you feel close to anyone. I had trouble finding a contact from which I am distant from 3 intermediates (and in fact it's normal, if each person is directly linked to 20 contacts, for example, we are linked to 400 contacts for 2 intermediaries , 8000 for 3, 160 000 contacts for 4, etc ...). In thinking about it, anyone you meet in the street is probably tied to you by a string of 3 or 4 intermediates at most. You could approach it to do business, but you did not know it. Thanks to LinkedIn, you can!

Because doing business, networking is obviously the big business of LinkedIn. There are a lot of people with long teeth who scour the Web looking for contacts that we hope will be fruitful, if not profound.

As the success of LinkedIn is based on the multiplication of the number of members, but at the same time it is necessary to cultivate the notion of privileged contact, of selectivity without which most people would not be enrolled obviously, LinkedIn proposes even phrases types for CVs! This makes you navigate through wood-colored resumes, the style of which would make the official propagandists of the former Soviet Union pale with envy. I often had to go back to 3 once to recognize the biographies of my former co-workers on LinkedIn!

Finally, we reach the opposite goal: you do not even recognize the people you knew!

And all that, it multiplies the tappers, the Seraphin Lampion of the Web, the great acorn sharks that will go to you, soliciting you with the front teeth lying around. And you're going to be part of it yourself, because LinkedIn, it seems like it's bad. You too (me too!), You will be able to identify the right person, to know his tastes, his activities, his "profile", to use it to establish a proximity that is hoped juicy.

With LinkedIn, Hell is always the others, but Big Brother is you.


Source: http://thierry-klein.speechi.net/2005/0 ... blaireaux/
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by Flytox » 29/11/11, 21:43

With LinkedIn, Hell is always the others, but Big Brother is you.


Well found, well summarized : Mrgreen:
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by Christophe » 29/11/11, 22:05

I like too !

Say it in 2005, what precursor!

See the latest news about the network of networks: https://www.econologie.com/forums/post217668.html#217668

Hey yes FB if ​​we say too much ... stinks ...
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