Wtf? They just put peoples addresses in phone books back then?

Wtf? They just put peoples addresses in phone books back then?

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  1. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    They still do

  2. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    i cant tell if its a bit or not, but are zoomers really this clueless on so many things that everyone knows? stop pretending you have no memories earlier than 2020, you were damn well alive in the 2010s b***h they still had phonebooks then, and im pretty sure they still do now

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      aww grampy mad, he need he daipy changed??

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Go blow your Granddaughter

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >2010s
      >phonebooks
      Making in your bumfrick nowhere. By the mid-2000s phonebooks were obsolete except a few critical places that still require them.

      • 3 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        the USPS used to put a new one in your mailbox once a year, i think its pretty been close to a decade since i last seen them to that, i remember they started getting smaller and smaller over the years. when i was a kid in the 90s them things used to be huge

        • 3 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          It's kind of crazy that they'd just give you 5lbs of free paper
          I remember when I was like 3 years old I called one of those adds in the very back pages of the phone book one night (lived in Las Vegas) and asked if they could send over some "big titty b***hes" and hung-up, but they traced the call and I got scolded the next day

          • 3 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            Lol as a kid I used to go the the yellow pages in the back half and prank call all the businesses and make fake orders to Chinese restaurants and shit, good times in the pre CallerID days when you could get away with that shit more, me and my friends were all wannabe Jerky Boys (god im outing myself as an old man with these references)

          • 3 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            I don’t give a frick if you hate yourself or kill babies for fun, you’re fricking awesome for that, that’s classic right there

        • 3 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          who else was the kid that learned how to bend the middle of the phone book to tear it in half at school?

          • 3 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            I learned how to rip a pokemon card in half to tell if it was real because of the black ink

            • 3 weeks ago
              Anonymous

              MtG cards do that too, I knew a guy that got tricked into believing the Jace, The Mind Sculpter card he got in a trade was actually fake, so he ripped it up and voila, authentic black strip in the middle. idiot lol.

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >i cant tell if its a bit or not, but are zoomers really this clueless on so many things that everyone knows?
      Yes.

  3. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >back then
    don't look your family up on white pages dot com

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >dot com
      >spoken like a true demented boomer
      It's not there, your point being?

      • 3 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        newbie alert

        • 3 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          >no you response
          Why bother?

          • 3 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            learn your place before you reply to me again

          • 3 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            moron

          • 3 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            Ignorant responses like yours are a diamond dozen. Smdh.

      • 3 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        >information was not on particular place on internet, clearly information not exist on internet!
        Axe murderer rapists aren't beating your door down because you're a boring piece of shit npc like nearly everyone who has ever lived.

  4. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    I was watching Children of the Corn a few nights ago and there's a scene where you can see Linda Hamiltons nipple poking through her shirt
    I didn't know it was her until the credits rolled

  5. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    I love old newspaper articles because they're like
    >the witness to the crime was Mrs.Fae Mulberry who lives at 45 Turner Rd
    They would just dox people without thinking twice.

    • 3 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Papers in smaller towns would even tell you when somebody was in the hospital

  6. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    I went in a major grocery store in a major American city the other day and they still had free print copies of the Yellow Pages in the front entrance. These books just list established businesses (that's the Yellow Pages part), but in years past real phone books had two sections: the yellow pages (businesses) and the White Pages (Individual, private listings). The new copy that I looked at dispensed with the White pages altogether, that seems to be the part that's irrelevant to print.

    I visited my small town home recently and mom and I went to the library. In the reference section they had decades of annual bound printed volumes of directories (dad informed me on the term of art), which are just old boomer phone books on steroids, a historical snapshot of a whole community. Absolutely everyone is named with their addresses and phone numbers, all the local businesses are listed too in the other section. I haven't lived in the town for a decade now so as I went through the recent history my personal data fluttered in and out depending on the year of the bound volume. Sometimes I was mapped to the parent's phone number, sometimes I was absent or present at times that didn't reflect historical reality in my case. When I left my home town for good I was pretty thorough about change of address and establishing the new address with everybody.

  7. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    When I was in elementary school (early 2000s) they still handed out phone books with addresses and the names of the families, along with what grades their kids were in. That way you could always call that kid you were friends with at school and invite him over

  8. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    You can/could elect to have your number and address hidden from the public listings.

  9. 3 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    You do know that the phone book wouldn't list her address as a nightclub right?

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