Looking Through the Yellow Pages for a Phone Number
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Phone books. Giant yellow pages were full of every phone number you could need in your area. Well, unless your friend’s number was unlisted. And even then if your friend had a common surname like Brown or Smith, good luck searching through the hundreds of listings for the one you need.
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These days there is no phone book, and you have to actually ask a person for their phone number. Interestingly, in a society that communicates less and less directly with each other, the thing you have to do more directly is ask someone for their number.
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