Early Days on Street View
Pages Jaunes (Yellow Pages France) had street view in March 2002. I used it to work out how to get from the train station to accommodation on arrival. Two problems though on arrival train partial strike so travel agent arranged a car and Page Jaunes assumed a side exit of Les Halles railway station was the main one. Still earlier than 2005, and to quote archive.org "2 200 000 photos de villes" <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20020326031423/http://photos.pagesjaunes.fr/" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20020326031423/http://photos.pag...</a> and voila! <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061130215611/http://photos.pagesjaunes.fr/1/c/tbf/user=ciweb;uri=fUTX2MwEBgEwkP2TsqIHH4eE5LTWJ+4ToFEsAyPkKw0p+fj/0ZR13n3I64MxCbJX8/YOafKvvlfPeVrSmySYP0aTVEsVi6IdeSIUzCu9i8yDL+/9WQ87nWHpR8rdR3ZHbjuOVlrCSLKDAJU+3lfvtd5uVMd3jyDaHy9gRdbfuiTOV20LSzscxw==" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20061130215611/http://photos.pag...</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20051012124517/http://photos.pagesjaunes.fr/1/c/tbf/user=pjphoto;uri=eaXxyuHMF4JzfqnMYt7DQ+O0dIL53V+dOPm4HNDC4CnFvkNO8RYVrcLFE2A8UaTVYR1U+/PjHt8=" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20051012124517/http://photos.pag...</a>