[saalweachter]

411 was a phone service that you could call and ask basic questions to and a human operator would look up answers for you.

Kind of a primitive version of Google.

[patwolf]

Anyone remember GOOG-411? During the days before smart phones, you'd call a phone number and do a Google search via voice.

My favorite part was that the sound it made while waiting for the results was a human making robotic beep-boop sounds.