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  2. Telephone directory - Wikipedia

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    Telephone directory. A telephone directory, commonly called a telephone book, telephone address book, phonebook, or the white and yellow pages, is a listing of telephone subscribers in a geographical area or subscribers to services provided by the organization that publishes the directory. Its purpose is to allow the telephone number of a ...

  3. The history of the American phone book - AOL

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    Three weeks later, Coy published a list of New Haven's 50 phone subscribers (names of people and businesses only, as phone numbers didn't yet exist): the first-ever phone directory.

  4. Yellow pages - Wikipedia

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    The yellow pages are telephone directories of businesses, organized by category rather than alphabetically by business name, in which advertising is sold. The directories were originally printed on yellow paper, as opposed to white pages for non-commercial listings. The traditional term "yellow pages" is now also applied to online directories ...

  5. List of countries by number of telephone lines in use - Wikipedia

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    Rank Country/region Number of telephone lines Date of information — Worldwide 931,000,000: 2019: 1 China 183,477,000: 2018/11: 2 United States 114,000,000: 2011 est. 3 Germany ...

  6. Things Boomers Took for Granted That are Obsolete Now

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    Phone Booths. 1878-2011 Before phones were pocket-sized supercomputers, people had to stop if they wanted to make calls on the go. The places they stopped to make those calls were phone booths ...

  7. List of oldest documents - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of the world's oldest surviving physical documents. Each entry is the most ancient of each language or civilization. For example, the Narmer Palette may be the most ancient from Egypt, but there are many other surviving written documents from Egypt later than the Narmer Palette but still more ancient than the Missal of Silos.

  8. Reader's Digest - Wikipedia

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    ISSN. 0034-0375. Reader's Digest is an American general-interest family magazine, published ten times a year. Formerly based in Chappaqua, New York, it is now headquartered in midtown Manhattan. The magazine was founded in 1922 by DeWitt Wallace and his wife Lila Bell Wallace. For many years, Reader's Digest was the best-selling consumer ...

  9. Payphone - Wikipedia

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    Payphone. A payphone (alternative spelling: pay phone or pay telephone or public phone) is typically a coin-operated public telephone, often located in a telephone booth or in high-traffic public areas. Prepayment is required by inserting coins or telephone tokens, swiping a credit or debit card, or using a telephone card.