Before the Internet, if a person needed to obtain a phone number or address for a person or business, he grabbed the phone book and searched for the information. Back then, "Googling" consisted of ...

Alas, the poor phone book. Once, it was the cornerstone of American connection, an indispensable resource people relied on to find pizza shops, plumbers, and the number of the cute girl in math class.

Verizon got approval to stop delivering them in New Jersey. The company wants to phase them out in Philadelphia next. New Jersey regulators have given Verizon the green-light to stop publishing the ...

Q: How do I get a telephone number for a family member? I live in another county that does not list Harford County, Md., telephone numbers and my address book was lost in the move, so I am having real ...

If you live in eastern Volusia County, you may have recently received a phone book. For some of us, it may have been a pleasant (or unwanted) surprise and a nostalgic reminder of those pre-digital ...

“Even though Spokane is a larger market, it kind of acts rural.” -John Gregory, vice president of directories, Dex Media When CenturyLink’s official phone book arrived on the doorsteps of Spokane ...

The state Utilities and Transportation Commission today announced that landline telephone providers will no longer be required to provide customers with printed “white pages” directories — those fat ...

The other day a curious artifact showed up on the doorstep, an object instantly recognizable even in its somewhat emaciated form to those of a certain age, and a complete bafflement to a younger ...

Frontier Communications will be allowed to cease blanket distribution of the white pages in Connecticut, where the first-ever telephone directory was set on cardboard in the 19th century. Frontier is ...

Why aren’t there “phone books” (directories) for cell phone numbers? Finding your name and number in the phone book once meant that you had officially made it in the world. You see that in the film ...