Got good use of that one, calling people up. The following year my dad after got a mobile phone and i just liked pressing buttons there wasn’t games on it yet.
I tried explaining phonebooks to my kids a while ago.
Went about as well as explaining a card trick to my dog.
They produced a CD at one point, which was a more convenient and easily searchable gift to spam callers.
You’re set for fire lighters for life
Useless? That was the only way to find the phone number of the girl you fancied in school, ring it and hope her dad didn’t answer, then hang up when he did… every time.
Great burning in that
That belongs in a museum!
They kept you, didn’t they?
My Granny used to have a collection of old phone books spanning around twenty years in a cupboard in her bathroom for some reason.
The section at the front of the book was actually a goldmine of geeky telecom trivia. For example, there was a time when one had to have written permission from the Minister for Post’s and Telegraphs in order to have an answering machine installed and had to pay extra to have a symbol in ones phonebook entry indicating that one had such equipment installed.
The backwardness of Irelands telecoms infrastructure prior to about the mid 1980’s was pretty mind blowing.
When you think about it, the GDPR violation of phonebooks is insane!!
The smell of nostalgia off them!
Being ex directory suggested someone was Protestant.
a 23 year old telephonium compendium is pretty useless.
Time capsule
Made great stands for CRT monitors
I had just learned to tear phone books in half when they went extinct, I had so much potential.
I’ve some quinnsworth plastic bags and a millennium milk bottle but think u may have won with this
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It’s not just one, I have golden pages for days
Got good use of that one, calling people up. The following year my dad after got a mobile phone and i just liked pressing buttons there wasn’t games on it yet.
I tried explaining phonebooks to my kids a while ago.
Went about as well as explaining a card trick to my dog.
They produced a CD at one point, which was a more convenient and easily searchable gift to spam callers.
You’re set for fire lighters for life
Useless? That was the only way to find the phone number of the girl you fancied in school, ring it and hope her dad didn’t answer, then hang up when he did… every time.
Great burning in that
That belongs in a museum!
They kept you, didn’t they?
My Granny used to have a collection of old phone books spanning around twenty years in a cupboard in her bathroom for some reason.
The section at the front of the book was actually a goldmine of geeky telecom trivia. For example, there was a time when one had to have written permission from the Minister for Post’s and Telegraphs in order to have an answering machine installed and had to pay extra to have a symbol in ones phonebook entry indicating that one had such equipment installed.
The backwardness of Irelands telecoms infrastructure prior to about the mid 1980’s was pretty mind blowing.
When you think about it, the GDPR violation of phonebooks is insane!!
The smell of nostalgia off them!
Being ex directory suggested someone was Protestant.
a 23 year old telephonium compendium is pretty useless.
Time capsule
Made great stands for CRT monitors
I had just learned to tear phone books in half when they went extinct, I had so much potential.
I’ve some quinnsworth plastic bags and a millennium milk bottle but think u may have won with this