Once a mainstay of homes, businesses, and phone booths everywhere, the phone book has (mostly) gone the way of the dodo. Spokeo examined historical documents, news reports, and other sources to ...

Phone books may seem like things of the past for anyone who has a smartphone. After all, just about any number is obtainable via online resources. With that said, there are still personal phone ...

The old story goes that if you interleave two phone directories side-by-side, they’re impossible to pull apart. Watch this YouTube video of two Dutch students using tow ropes, a Land Rover, and a ...

Photo illustration with Marilyn Monroe holding phone book. Once a mainstay of homes, businesses, and phone booths everywhere, the phone book has (mostly) gone the way of the dodo. Spokeo examined ...

It happens several times a year in neighborhoods all across the country – telephone directories magically appear. They’re tossed on porches, dropped by mailboxes, and piled up in the entranceways to ...

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 ...

PORTSMOUTH — Donald Benedict, president of Colonial Plumbing, knows a thing or two about Yellow Pages advertising. First, there is his full page, bold-plate copy promising, "My Plumber Will Smell Good ...

Imagine a list anyone can access, for free, containing the home phone numbers of everyone in the country, along with their address. To anyone under 40, it must sound like a privacy nightmare, not ...

After April 30, the digital directory, The Phone Book Online, which lets users look up a person's or company's phone number, will be unavailable. They now have to phone 118 500 at £1.55 a minute, in ...