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 ...

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 ...

For some people, the phone books that automatically show up on the doorstep or in the mailbox are relics of the past. With the prevalence of smartphones and the Internet, using the white pages to look ...

“Old-fashioned” was the word one state official used to describe telephone books, the once ubiquitous source of reams of information. These days, though, when we let our “fingers do the walking,” as ...

The other day a curious artifact showed up on the doorstep, an object instantly recognizable even in its somewhat emaciated form to those of a certain age, and a complete bafflement to a younger ...

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 ...

Way, way back in the olden days, people wrote on typewriters, watched just five TV channels, and put sugar in their coffee. There was no such thing as gluten-free, eco-friendly, satellite radio, or ...

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 ...