A rundown of the best French sites on the Internet describes French language resources, including portals/Internet directories/search/engines and journal indexes/research tools. Although French-speaking people are not in the avant garde of Internet usage, France was one of the first countries to develop France's still-popular Minitel online information system, which was developed in cooperation with France Telecom, in the 1980s. Minitel stayed popular into the late 1990s and is still popular. In France, the Internet was regarded as an American tool, with mostly English content. However, the French government is renewing its commitment to Internet access. Minitel is still used in many homes, but Internet use in France grew 92% between 2000 and 2005. Virtual Libraries highlighted include Gallica, La Bibliotheque universelle, Jules Ferry.com, La bibliotheque virtuelle, and the Bibliotheque nationale du Quebec. For instance, Gallica is an impressive site and useful to Francophiles or students of French, since it is the catalog of the digital collection of the Bibliotheque national de la France and contains 70,000 digital documents, 1,200 full-text documents, and 80,000 images (from the middle ages to the 20th century). A larger Internet directory is kept by the Bibliotheque publique dinformation and was created by the largest public library in France. The excellent portal indexes hundreds of Web site according to category, and not all are French.