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When my wife and I moved out of our apartment a few years ago, after most of the stuff was moved out including the computers, we happened to need to look up a p
by phaedrus 15y ago
When my wife and I moved out of our apartment a few years ago, after most of the stuff was moved out including the computers, we happened to need to look up a phone number. It literally did not occur to us that there was even a way to look up a phone number without using the internet. Meanwhile we were tripping over a pile of dusty yellow books that were one of the last things we left in the apartment (and weren't taking with us).
After 20 minutes I finally remembered "oh, that's what those yellow books are for". It's just how infrequently we've cracked open a phone book - which is to say never since 1993. I can tell you, for anyone in their 20's, that phone book goes straight from the doorstep to the dustbin, just like the paper newspaper. Good riddance!