Yeah, I think I could tear this in half
Ladies and gentlemen, positively the last phone book. I’ve bought thicker magazines.
I’m not sure I believe this, you know. My memory is the last few phone books were called the last. I’m not sure why we’re getting it now, either – it was billed as coming out in October. I think this is a money spinner and they’re marketing it to businesses as, “be in the last ever phone book!”
But I can’t be arsed to open it because, who cares?
The very first BT phonebook was published in 1880 and had just 248 London names – and no telephone numbers! Sixteen years later, the first national phonebook was 1,350 pages and 81,000 names.
I know. The idea of a national phonebook is brain hurty.
The first American phone book was published in 1878. It was a sheet of cardboard with 50 names on it all from New Haven, Connecticut. Reason being, it was invented nearby and Bell had demo’d it in New Haven the year before. So, fifty early adopters.
Names, again. You don’t think they’d dial numbers themselves? They called the switchboard and had the girl do it.
March 12, 2024 — 7:48 pm
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