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 Spokeo examined historical documents, news reports, and other sources to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alas, the poor phone book. Once, it was the cornerstone of American connection, an indispensable resource people relied on to find pizza shops, plumbers, and the number of the cute girl in math class.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ALBANY — The days of having a new telephone book regularly delivered to your door are over for many New Yorkers. The state Public Service Commission on Thursday allowed Verizon and its directory ...

I haven't used a phone book in years. Years! I can hardly even remember life before Google. A while back I tried to opt out of my phone book delivery service, but still that enormous heavy tome of ...

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 ...