"L'assistance annuaire est essentiellement l'internet des années 90."
— Marilyn vos Savant
Simplified Meaning:
In the 1990s, if you needed someone's phone number, you'd call a service called directory assistance, and they would look it up for you. It was kind of like how we use the internet today to find information. Imagine you want to know the address of a local business or the number of a friend, you’d call directory assistance, and they’d tell you, similar to how we type into a search engine today. Back then, people relied on it because they didn't have Google or smartphones to look things up themselves. For example, if you needed to find a pizza place’s phone number, you’d call directory assistance; today, you would just search online. Understanding this helps appreciate how much easier and faster finding information has become with modern technology.
