In smaller areas they’d make the yellow book and white book the same book to save on binding and distribution. I remember back in the very early 2000’s my rural county still got the 400+ page yellow pages delivered every year.
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kirkoman@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
The yellow one was for businesses. Residential phone numbers and often addresses where in the white book.
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I think in the UK it was just yellow with “The Yellow Pages”, the actual name of the book itself and the company in charge of it. I know it eventually became just businesses but I’m sure it was more than that before the millennium. Now it’s just a business ratings website just called “Yell”.
titanicx@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
You used to make pretty good money being able to deliver the phone books too when they came out. It’s funny how people think the gig economy is new when we are doing everything we could to make money anyway possible. From delivering newspapers to phone books to door to door sales for advertising businesses in the phone book.
MrQuallzin@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Legitimate question, why do people keep typing “where” instead of “were”? Many typos are understandable where letters that are next to each other accidentally get swapped, but you have to go out of your way to put the h in there.
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They do it to annoy you. Just you.
borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Probably they’re swiping on a phone keyboard and autocorrect fucked them, or they’re using text to speech and the diction fucked up and they didn’t proofread it.
far_university1990@reddthat.com 2 months ago
If type like sound in head, where and were same. And type learned enough not think about every letter.
blackbrook@mander.xyz 2 months ago
I can’t speak for others, and I’m not sure I ever make that particular typo (espec swipe typing on phone), but I’ve noticed that I sometimes make typos that don’t particularly make sense to me… I’ll write a similar word that I would never actually confuse with the word I wanted…is not a homophone, is not a letter adjacency typo. I think the brain just works differently than we expect sometimes…
Ronan@piefed.social 2 months ago
Depends on where you are from I guess, there were many countries that used yellow pages for residential.
digger@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Came here to day this… Because I’m old.
kirkoman@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
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MotoAsh@piefed.social 2 months ago
Samsonite! I was close.
djsaskdja@reddthat.com 2 months ago
Swanson
TheBat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
All of this could’ve been avoided had Sarah asked her roommate to get phone line in her name.
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yes the terminator would have reached the end of the list and gone “Whelp, guess the humans outsmarted us again!” And just give up on the spot. Terminator are known for giving up at the slightest setback.
TheBat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Exactly!
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Bess Motta was pretty hot.