I was talking to a coworker about these new phishing attacks that send your name and address and sometimes a picture of your house, and I was saying how creepy it is, and they told me that phonebooks were delivered to everyone and used to have like literally everyone in a city listed by last name with their phone number and address. Is that for real?
They were quite big, but used super thin paper and small font. There were books thicker still, but still the phrase “thick as a phone book” was used.
There were also Yellow Pages (same format as phone books, but entirely yellow) which listed businesess and stuff.
Pre-internet these were the household essentials.
There was also a number you could call to ask for phone numbers or other stuff. Basically a call in google.
The 1900s were crazy
Man, I was already feeling ancient. You using “1900s” didn’t help much :D
I did that one on purpose as a joke! 😁