France was initially rather slow to take up the Internet owing in part to its familiarity with Minitel and the dominance of the English language on the Net. Recently, however, Internet use has soared, and most museums and institutions have sites on the World Wide Web. You can get into a list of all French servers via the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique on www.urec.fr or visit the Ministry of Culture's site on www.culture.fr.One of the best ways to keep in touch while travelling is to sign up for a free Internet email address that can be accessed from anywhere, for example YahooMail or Hotmail – accessible through www.yahoo.com and www.hotmail.com. Once you've set up an account, you can use these sites to pick up and send mail from any Internet café, or hotel with Internet access. For those travelling with a laptop, www.kropla.com is a useful website giving information on how to plug it in when abroad, phone country codes around the world, and electrical systems in different countries.
Pages in section ‘Email and the Internet’: Internet Access.
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