The First App Store
<i>In the early 1990s US West (previously Qwest now CenturyLink) launched a Minitel service in the Minneapolis and Omaha markets called "CommunityLink"... The service was fairly short-lived as competing offerings from providers like AOL, Prodigy, and CompuServe provided more services targeted at American users for a lower price. Many of US West's Minitel offerings were charged à la carte or hourly while competitors offered monthly all-inclusive pricing.</i><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel#Minitel_in_other_countries" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel#Minitel_in_other_countr...</a>