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 Spokeo examined historical documents, news reports, and other sources to ...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

New website offers Americans the chance to opt-out of phone books. Feb. 1, 2011— -- A new website is giving Americans a way to say "no thanks" to deliveries of Yellow Pages phone books. Starting ...

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 ...

The YPA is calling the site the National Yellow Pages Consumer Choice & Opt-Out Site, because it allows you to opt out of all books or choose to receive selected books. I clicked through through the ...

One of the earliest phone books — published in New Haven, Conn., in 1878 — has sold at auction for $170. The slender volume included what would become the Yellow Pages, and some of the businesses that ...

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 ...

AT&T launched its no-white-pages program in Houston late last year, according to a Nov. 12 story in the Houston Chronicle. The phone company promised that copies would be available free to those who ...

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 ...

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 ...