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# Wednesday, March 26, 2008
RIP Phone Book, 1878-20??
Posted by Grace

Phone books can be great resources for confirming locations of your recent ancestors, but those big yellow doorstoppers are dying a slow death, the online newsmagazine Slate reports.

They've come a long way since the first phone directory, a one-pager listing all 52 telephone subscribers in New Haven, Conn., debuted in 1878. (The Slate article describes many more mentionable moments in phone-book history.)

The hefty, floppy books were created as vehicles for companies to sell advertising, and last year, 615 million directories were printed in the US, creating revenues of $13.9 billion, according to the Yellow Pages Association. But more and more cell phones are unlisted, and many people turn to the Internet to find phone numbers—especially people under 30. (For example, the last time I used a phone book was when the electricity in my apartment went out and I couldn't find the number I needed by text messaging Google.)

For more phone fun, OldTelephoneBooks.com has many old pictures of telephone books, and some are listed for sale. You can browse by country, state and city.

Genealogy fun | Social History
Wednesday, March 26, 2008 3:19:10 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)  #  Comments [2]
Wednesday, March 26, 2008 5:29:17 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
But you did use a print Yellow Pages, just like more than the 13 billion+ times they were used last year. And that’s just the print versions. 87% of all adults reference them at least once a year, 70% in a typical month, and 50+% on average month. How about on average 1.4X each week?

The Internet is wonderful thing, but the myth that it all we need doesn't hold water. The Wall Street Journal reported recently that the broadband market is about tapped out. There will always be a good percentage of the population that will never have access to the industry’s Internet products. Barely more than 50% of households in the U.S. (about 56 million homes), currently subscribe to a high-speed Internet service. An additional 21 million households still use dial-up connections (yes, you read that right – dial-up connections).
kenc
Thursday, March 27, 2008 5:42:39 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
I was sincerely was hoping that my ancestors were on the
list for New Haven, CT. They were not ready for technology
to change their lives, just yet. Thank you for the interesting
article.
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