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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 subscriber identified by ...
As phone lines became more popular—between 1942 and 1962, the number of phones in the U.S. grew 230% to 76 million—telephone companies realized they would run out of phone numbers.
Telephone numbers listed in 1920 in New York City having three-letter exchange prefixes. In the United States, the most-populous cities, such as New York City, Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago, initially implemented dial service with telephone numbers consisting of three letters and four digits (3L-4N) according to a system developed by W. G. Blauvelt of AT&T in 1917. [1]
The name and concept of "yellow pages" came about in 1883, when a printer in Cheyenne, Wyoming, working on a regular telephone directory, ran out of white paper so they used yellow paper instead. [3] In 1886, Reuben H. Donnelley created the first official Yellow Pages directory for the city of Chicago. [4] [5]
An early version was also found in use by the Chimu in Peru. The gourd and stretched-hide version resides in the Smithsonian Museum collection and dates back to around the 7th century AD. [5] For a few years in the late 1800s, acoustic telephones were marketed commercially as a competitor to the electrical telephone.
It retained its telephone directory operations in the areas it sold. In 1993, US West sold off 10 exchanges in Arizona to three buyers. [9] In 1993, Pacific Telecom agreed to purchase 45 exchanges in Colorado serving 50,000 customers. The sale closed in 1994 and the lines were added to Eagle Telecommunications.
Feist Publications, Inc. specialized in compiling telephone directories from larger geographic areas than Rural from other areas of Kansas. It had licensed the directory of 11 other local directories, with Rural being the only holdout in the region. Despite Rural's denial of a license to Feist, Feist copied 4,000 entries from Rural's directory.
"Big Brother Is Watching You Part 2 – collection of mirrored USA Today Print coverage, May 11, 2006". via thewall.civiblog.org. Archived from the original on September 8, 2008 "NSA has massive database of Americans' phone calls – from collection of mirrored USA Today Print coverage, May 11, 2006". via thewall.civiblog.org.