46 The Lost French Web with Kevin Driscoll

from Reimagining the Internet · host Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure

en you think about early Internet users, do you picture French people trying to find love and teens in after-school programs? Kevin Driscoll joins us for this edition of our history series "How They Imagined the Internet" to tell us about France's nation-wide public Internet that ran for decades and how BBS laid the groundwork for the web to be a social place.

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