The first "phone book" (really a one-page sheet) came long before phones like this, but it was an important step towards the printed directories that were ubiquitous in the twentieth century and are ...

Before the Internet, if a person needed to obtain a phone number or address for a person or business, he grabbed the phone book and searched for the information. Back then, "Googling" consisted of ...

Before Google and social media, the only way you were able to find a way to contact someone or a business was the Local Directory (aka: ‘Phone Book’). As scary as it may seem today, unless a person ...

Why aren’t there “phone books” (directories) for cell phone numbers? Finding your name and number in the phone book once meant that you had officially made it in the world. You see that in the film ...

FARGO - Ask yourself, "When was the last time I used a phone book?" If you're like 70 percent of the American population, you probably don't recall the last time you used the archaic directory that at ...

IThe other day, Nick, my 20 year old, called me in Miami on his cell phone from a crowded sidewalk in Manhattan. “Dad, are you at your computer?”. I knew what was coming next. “Can you check a phone ...

Even in today’s social media age, the idea of a directory laying bare home numbers and addresses seems bizarre, writes Jonathan Margolis – but years after prank calls, the humble phone book helped him ...

The very first phone book was published so long ago that it had to tell readers how to use that newfangled gizmo, the telephone. It now appears that "that is all" for the phone book itself: At least ...