In the 20th century, alphabetical order appeared to be immortal. No longer could anyone at home in an alphabetic writing system remember a time when the automatic response to ordering had not been ...

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 ...

Spokeo reports on evolving phone habits, highlighting trends lost over time and new ones emerging, from voice notes to the ...

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 ...

In this article, Spokeo highlights some of the most interesting phone trends that have faded, and gained newfound popularity.

PITTSBURGH — Why do we still get phone books in 2019? Channel 11 News viewers sent us videos of their tweens and teens trying to navigate the lost art of the yellow pages. And yet, the books still ...

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 ...

The phone book, a one-time necessity that many now consider a wasteful nuisance, is about to disappear from your life forever. Frontier Communications, which provides landline phone service in the ...

If you live in eastern Volusia County, you may have recently received a phone book. For some of us, it may have been a pleasant (or unwanted) surprise and a nostalgic reminder of those pre-digital ...

A new locally produced consumer telephone book is now on the streets of metropolitan Fargo-Moorhead. SmartSearch, the brainchild of Fargoan Dan Bryant, is being distributed to 80,000 homes in Fargo, ...

This week marked the anniversary of that solemn tome, that august undertaking, the telephone book, in honor of which the Saturday Evening Post has run a fascinating and whimsical piece by Jeff Nillson ...

It took asking ChatGPT about eating a phone book to fully grasp the learning opportunity new artificial intelligence large language models offer. More excited than apprehensive, I was never among ...