Dear colleagues, We are happy to announce the publication of our new book, Minitel: Welcome to the Internet. Minitel: Welcome to the Internet Julien Mailland & Kevin Driscoll The MIT Press, June 2017 https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/minitel In the 1980s, the French Minitel network was the first online system to reach mass-market penetration at the level of a country. With its unusual balance of public and private control, Minitel offers an alternative model for thinking about platforms, policy, and public culture. For a taste of our argument and approach, check out this recent article in the IEEE Spectrum, "The Online World France Built Before the Web": http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/networks/minitel-the-online-world-france-... And for a deeper dive, visit the Minitel Research Lab, an independent digital archive featuring hundreds of Minitel artifacts, from terminal hardware to synthpop records: http://minitel.us/ Sincerely, Kevin Driscoll and Julien Mailland