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A Minitel Page from 1991
Telecom History of France
 
Telecommunication History in France
Hotels
1878
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1889
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1986
1990
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2005
2006
2014
Alexander Bell
Arrival of the Phone
in France
First
Phonebooks
Yellow Pages
PagesJaunes
Nationalization
of SG des
Telephones
Creation of the PTT
Minitel
ancestor of the Internet
Sony phones
non agrées
PTT
PTT
becomes
France Telecom
and La Poste
Call Back
Opening of the Phone Lines
France
in the early
Internet Years
Aimée de Heeren
White Pages
in France
+ World
12
replaced
by 118xxx
Sale of
ODA /
PagesJaunes
new FT Directory
Cremerie de Paris
and more
White Pages
Before ... Arrival of the Phone in France
1671 Unce upon a time
Seat of the Royal Postal Services



Telephone Directory

1671 Unce upon a time the left side of the Cremerie de Paris
was part of the Royal Postal Service of France.

The Hotel de Villeroy mansion going back to 1370 / 1640
was previously owned by Nicolas V de Villeroy,
educator of the young King Louis XIV.


Louis Leon PajotHorse Carriages rue des Dechargeurs
Louis Leon Pajot, maître general des Postes + horse carrigages


1870 Cremerie de Paris reopens as a Milk store
connected to the Halles Centrales Foodmarket
The right side of the Cremerie was built in 1870
under the Baron Haussmann who transformed Paris and erected Rue des Halles.

1993 Cremerie de Paris opens as a Sony Boutique
which becomes the first Internetcafe in Paris


At the Cybercafe is invented the Phonebook of the World
followed by a multitude of White Pages.

Phonebook of the World
Phonebook of the World ... homepage





White Pages Timeline

Louis Henri Schlumberger with the very first Phonebook of Paris
1890 the very first Annuaire de Paris / Phonebook of Paris
and Louis Henri Schlumberger from Phonebook of the World

1994 Australia was the first country to see
Whitepages (Whitepages.com.au) come online.

1996 Followed by the United States (Whitepages.com)
were a young student used all his savings to buy the domain name
and created the America's most completeTelephone Directory.


May 2004, day of the first step in liberalization of .fr domains
were created at the Cybercafe de Paris, Whitepages.fr ...





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