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Apr 22Liked by Collin Brooke

"The world at your fingertips" birthed under the old Ma Bell, AT&T organization way back in the early 60s as I recall. Doesn't mean that wasn't in existence before that, but it was worked in conjunction with the "let your fingers do the walking," promotion of Ma Bell's Yellow Pages Directory

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That makes sense - I remember "let your fingers do the walking" for sure, and it wouldn't surprise me to learn that "world at your fingertips" was how some places promoted or marketed the yellow pages...

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