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Old Feb 23, 2005, 5:18 pm
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SYDguy
 
Join Date: May 2002
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Originally Posted by stimpy
How typically French. While I love most of the French culture, their approach to information systems has an awful history. If it wasn't for the Internet forcing its way into France (France's IT people resisted the Internet very strongly), they would still be in the dark ages.
What nonsense! France had a pre-cursor to the Internet for some decades before the rest of the world in the form of the below mentioned minitel.

and BTW last time I checked Apple was 'proudly Californian'
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