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And the city would even place them at booths all over for the public's doxxing convenience (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by The_Picard_Maneuver to c/memes

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[–] Furbag 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think they eventually started combining them for payphones.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

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.