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A man separates components from a French Minitel terminal which are to be broken down for recycling in Portet-Sur-GaronneBruno Martin / Reuters 
Circuit boards from French Minitel terminals which are broken down into its components
are collected for recycling in Portet-Sur-Garonne
southwestern France.Bruno Martin / Reuters 
According to Wikipedia, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel">millions of the terminals were handed out free to telephone subscribers</a> in France who then paid by the minute for their dialup use
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