I was there...

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• Son_of_Macha@lemmy.cafe ⁨8⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  You were asked if you wanted to be listed or not.

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• kirkoman@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The yellow one was for businesses. Residential phone numbers and often addresses where in the white book.

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  • kirkoman@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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    • MotoAsh@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Samsonite! I was close.

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  • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨57⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    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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  • MrQuallzin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ 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.

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    • Iheartcheese@lemmy.world ⁨41⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      They do it to annoy you. Just you.

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  • Ronan@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Depends on where you are from I guess, there were many countries that used yellow pages for residential.

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• Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yes, but even then it was generally only true for the remaining fixed landline phones. Felt just like a public knowledge part of your address, like putting your name on the doorbell button.

  To be generally valid for mobile phones you probably would have to go back another 10 years.
  Those truely were still different times, also online.
  I even remember posting my mail address to a public register at the end of the 90s to distribute the public part of my pgp key…

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• notsosure@sh.itjust.works ⁨51⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  The reach of a printed phone book is obviously very limited, if compared to the globally accessibility of only data.

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• Mongostein@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  I had a cell phone and ditched my landline in 2003. Those weren’t listed. Gotta go back 3 more years! (For me anyway)

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