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Watching #Kojak S1E1. They used the #YellowPages to learn things about where the bad guys are hiding. Plus the phone number to call them!

#nostalgia

Just found out Yellow Pages and White Pages still exist! You can order them. Tempted to, just to see what's in them these days

https://www.directoryselect.com.au/action/home

#YellowPages #WhitePages #Sensis #Whereis #Telstra

Floordi is now listed on YellowPages Canada.
See our verified business profile here:

https://www.yellowpages.ca/bus/Ontario/Hamilton/Floordi/104364645.html

#Floordi #Hamilton #CanadaBusiness #YellowPages #InteriorMaterials #SPCflooring #LocalBusiness

Hard copies: https://www.therealyellowpages.com

Or DexMedia might also ship them to your region if you have a land line.

In my area they mail them to certain neighborhoods where the geriatric boomer brigades and the hippy generation are known to still reside. The last place I lived 4 years ago they still delivered them every year. In my new place they don't deliver to my neighborhood. For everyone else you need to order them, and they are only available for certain areas.

I surmise that the print phone books will never be completely extinct. They are critical infrastructure if the data grid goes down in some disaster. There are still millions of active copper phone lines across the country, and the way they were buried, it should be another two generations before all that copper corrodes. I have lines that are 50 years old and still in good condition. It is just sitting there, waiting in case it is ever needed.

#YellowPages #WhitePages #PhoneBooks #Telephones #Phones #RetroTech

@atpfm @marcoarment Total coincidence, but a new (really thin) edition of the Yellow Pages just arrived after 5 (or 10?) years and I was just browsing it for fun & nostalgia when your episode mentioned it AS IF IT DIDN’T EXIST how offensive, I’m right here, etc 🥰 #yellowpages

What J.R. Hartley did next

#YellowPages
#Flatbeat
#Resampling

Mock cover of book
On the cover, a photographic image depicts a tourist who is visiting a scenic mountain area. He is standing in front of an information display that shows a picture of snow topped mountains. In the background behind the sign are the actual snow-topped mountains. The man is absorbed in photographing the sign and ignoring the real mountains.
The book is entitled "Resampling - an illustrated guide"

Using the #1MinuteCriteria for websites to provide simple, non-sensitive information.

It took less than one minute to reach for the #WhitePages or #YellowPages and find the street address of a business or bank branch.

Why am I going to waste any more that 1 minute of my time fooling about with some cryptic and puerile website trying to get basic info?

I #JustPhoneThem after that.

#WebSiteFail #ConsumingIn2024

Before moving to greener (and higher-paying 🤑) pastures, one of my two big "technical assistant" projects for #Comcast #Cellular was upgrading the engineers' Sun #Unix workstations from the #BSD-based #SunOS 4 to #SVR4-based SunOS 5 (#Solaris 2), and from #NIS / #YellowPages to NIS+.

In hindsight, it was a bad idea to make both changes at once, but I was a kid entranced by novelty and not yet very considerate of my users during the inevitable downtimes. (3/6)

(1/2) #ICYMI: If you hate AI powered search engines and prefer a more humanized and alphabetical index of sites, well, why not go to The Blue Pages!

The Blue Pages aims to be a web directory that:
- Relevant to one's interest
- Could be used by literally everyone (except corporations)
- Go with the spirit of Web 1.0

It is a pure curated index, no scrappers, no algorithms, no bullshit.

Why not go there on: https://blue-pages.bitbucket.io now!

#oldweb #web #tech #searchengines #search #ai #yellowpages

#yellowpages
https://all-andorra.com/yellow-pages/

We received a Yellow Pages directory (!) in our physical mailbox yesterday. Today I learned that there’s a way to prevent future deliveries using a maliciously compliant method and message:

https://www.delivery.yp.ca/discontinue

That’s Employee of the Month material right there!

#YellowPages #JunkMail

A screen with this text on it:

Discontinue Yellow Pages™ directory delivery?

To stop receiving your directory, simply put a note on your mailbox stating that you do not wish to receive directories.
Place the note in or on your mailbox, or on the inside lip of your community mailbox, group mailbox or postal box.

Download PDF Note

A white background with black text that reads “No Directories Please”. There’s nothing else.

Fun fact: You can roll out your own Blue Pages! That's right! It's a specification!

#oldweb #bluepages #web #yellowpages #tech #smallweb

Recently got my own copy of the Yellow Pages, and boy, I am a bit shocked.

I know that the Yellow Pages in my area are getting thinner, but I'm much more surprised that they also have the White Pages too and the fact that the page size is smaller than I thought.

They still publish it yearly, although it only applies to certain locations. Mine was from 2020-2021 while Metro Manila has the latest ones.

#yellowpages #books #random