[nickpp]

Funny enough, France's failed internet, the Minitel would probably be the solution pushed today by the EU.

The Internet won on the free market, through its own merits. No politician intervention necessary. Even if plenty tried to capture the glory (information superhighway…)

[tremon]

Do you have any credible sources to base that claim on, other than "let's paint the government as idiots"? Did you know that TCP/IP was based on that other "failed" french network, Cyclades?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CYCLADES