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 ...

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 Spokeo examined historical documents, news reports, and other sources to ...

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 ...

The old story goes that if you interleave two phone directories side-by-side, they’re impossible to pull apart. Watch this YouTube video of two Dutch students using tow ropes, a Land Rover, and a ...

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 ...

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 ...

AT&T land line phone customers in the “greater Los Angeles” area received copies of the company’s phone book recently. And if they looked closely, they probably noticed something different. There ...

PORTSMOUTH — Donald Benedict, president of Colonial Plumbing, knows a thing or two about Yellow Pages advertising. First, there is his full page, bold-plate copy promising, "My Plumber Will Smell Good ...

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 ...