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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The very first phone book was published so long ago that it had to tell readers how to use that newfangled gizmo, the telephone. It now appears that "that is all" for the phone book itself: At least ...

The League of Women Voter's Tri-Town Telephone Directory, the "Blue Book," is currently being updated for its 26th edition for Marion, Mattapoisett and Rochester residents. The 2011-12 edition will be ...