phone books
Printed contact listings
Phone books are printed directories listing telephone numbers and addresses, typically organized alphabetically by name.
Once essential household items, they've been largely replaced by internet search.
The white pages listed residential numbers; the yellow pages organized businesses by category.
To let your fingers do the walking meant browsing the yellow pages instead of visiting stores in person.
- white pagesResidential telephone directory
- listingsPublished directory contents
- directoryFile system container
- addressesLocations for correspondence
- business directoriesIndexes of commercial enterprises
alphabetical order · contacts · reverse lookup · subscribers · numbers · index · classified ads · obsolete · business listings · area codes · contact information · Ma Bell · rotary dial · walking · fingers · porch · lookup · paper
- directorieswhite pages, business directory, business directories, online directory, staff directory
- dying industriesprint newspapers, landlines, payphones, cassette tapes, VCRs
- outdated thingsVHS tapes, fax machines, dial-up, typewriters, cassettes
- web directoriesbusiness listings, Yellow Pages, company profiles, Yelp, event listings
- contactsfriend, family, contact list, neighbor, acquaintances
- obsolete techfloppy disk, VHS, dial-up modem, cassette tape, floppy disks
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