Once a mainstay of homes, businesses, and phone booths everywhere, the phone book has (mostly) gone the way of the dodo. Spokeo examined historical documents, news reports, and other sources to ...

The first "phone book" (really a one-page sheet) came long before phones like this, but it was an important step towards the printed directories that were ubiquitous in the twentieth century and are ...

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 ...

New website offers Americans the chance to opt-out of phone books. Feb. 1, 2011— -- A new website is giving Americans a way to say "no thanks" to deliveries of Yellow Pages phone books. Starting ...

The YPA is calling the site the National Yellow Pages Consumer Choice & Opt-Out Site, because it allows you to opt out of all books or choose to receive selected books. I clicked through through the ...

AT&T launched its no-white-pages program in Houston late last year, according to a Nov. 12 story in the Houston Chronicle. The phone company promised that copies would be available free to those who ...

AT&T land line phone customers in the “greater Los Angeles” area received copies of the company’s phone book recently. And if they looked closely, they probably noticed something different. There ...

FARGO - Ask yourself, "When was the last time I used a phone book?" If you're like 70 percent of the American population, you probably don't recall the last time you used the archaic directory that at ...

PORTSMOUTH — Donald Benedict, president of Colonial Plumbing, knows a thing or two about Yellow Pages advertising. First, there is his full page, bold-plate copy promising, "My Plumber Will Smell Good ...

OLYMPIA — Someday soon, small children could have trouble reaching the dining-room table. Doors will blow shut with the breeze. Well-muscled men will search in vain for something to tear in half to ...

(CBS/AP) SAN FRANCISCO - With more of us letting our fingers do the walking online, San Francisco has banned the unsolicited distribution of the Yellow Pages phone book. The law is scheduled to take ...