Get your Minitel back, the COMPUTEL videotex BBS is back

Love it!

I’m guessing a few here have already come across the streaming show “3615 Monique” also called “Cheeky Business” that tells the story of a few college students in France who launched a sex chat on the Minitel. The show captures the vibe of the time and highlights tech related issues many of which have stayed with us as the internet has grown.

> In the France of the early 1980s, still marked by the Giscard years, Simon, Tony and Stéphanie embody a new generation ready to do anything to appropriate this new decade without knowing in concrete terms what they are going to be able to do with their lives. From the depths of their suburbs, their revolutionary idea will contribute to the sexual disinhibition of an entire country. 3615 MONIQUE is the story of the collaboration of these three students who, despite their enmity, will do everything to realize their crazy project and reveal it to the world. Little by little, without their realizing it, this collaboration will transform into a fragile friendship - made of passion, lies, betrayals and sex.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt13462310/plotsummary

In Australia the show is currently available on Binge as Cheeky Business.

Related: Retrocampus BBS is a dial-up BBS you can call with your Videotel terminal in Italy... or access with your browser right now - https://bbs.retrocampus.com/

Of course I'm not suggesting at all that you waste an otherwise perfectly productive day playing Zork I-II-III or Hitchhiker's on it... ;-)

Doesn't seem like the phone number works any more, but there are other Minitel servers online (or at least there were when I tested in November 2023): https://blog.jgc.org/2023/11/using-my-minitel-1b-over-phone-...

Server programming in AppleSoft BASIC, as shown in the manual screenshot from the article:

  10 &WAIT
  20 &HOME:&PRINT"HELLO"
  30 FOR I = 1 TO 2000:NEXT
  40 &PRINT"BYE"
  50 &END

Title should say (2017)