[Brian_K_White]

Pre internet, the entire world could not access that phone book effortlessly, nor F with your life effortlessly and by remote control and without even being detected.

Both sides of every such silly observation changed, not just one.

[vidarh]

Not mess with your life so easily, but even being in Europe, I knew I could call 411 in the US to get information at least a decade before the first time I visited and actually used it.