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Legend has it that each of these would hold a book with everyone's name and home address, for anyone who wanted it.
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Which, looking at it from a 21st century perspective I'd be terrified if someone just put my god damn address in a book most people kept lying around. I'm still pissed at Snapchat for sharing my live gps location with my contacts.
It wasn't really that bad.
They only had the numbers of local people and the phone book would just give you name, address and phone number. If you're the Terminator and there happen to be 3 Sarah Connors in the phone book, too bad, you've got to visit all 3 of them. You could ask to have your number unlisted and many people did, particularly celebrities. Nobody had an on-line presence so the only way people would even know the name of most people was if you told them.
In case you weren't aware, that information is still public, but now it's online.
Edit: just looked myself up on whitepages, and it not only shows my full address, but all my previous addresses too.
The Terminator in the first movie used a phone book to hunt down and kill all the Sarah Connors it could find
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