• chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    White pages are where people doxxed themselves.

    Yellow pages were business listings. They were also sorted by category, then alphabetically within a category, which is why so many businesses names started with “AAA.”

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      So in movies where people flip through giant yellow phone book and try to call everyone with the same name in the area is a LIE?

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          They were frequently combined, the white pages were people in the local area and the yellow pages were businesses. I don’t actually remember seeing white pages in any phone booths or by pay phones but that may just be where I lived.