I was talking to a coworker about these new phishing attacks that send your name and address and sometimes a picture of your house, and I was saying how creepy it is, and they told me that phonebooks were delivered to everyone and used to have like literally everyone in a city listed by last name with their phone number and address. Is that for real?

  • @[email protected]English
    6•2 months ago

    They were quite big, but used super thin paper and small font. There were books thicker still, but still the phrase “thick as a phone book” was used.

    There were also Yellow Pages (same format as phone books, but entirely yellow) which listed businesess and stuff.

    Pre-internet these were the household essentials.

    There was also a number you could call to ask for phone numbers or other stuff. Basically a call in google.