PATRICK O’SHEA


Researcher and Artist





Webware

Minitel render of Apollo 8 moon image

Practice based research using a 1980 Minitel computer as the interface for the modern internet. Using raspberry pi and various hardware, the Minitel became the ‘read’ platform to visit various online repositories. 

The research follows the evolution of the Minitel protocol as the foreshadow to the current one. 

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black-hole photograph depicted on Minitel










Some scatterd images of the process to create a Minitel online: