I'm sorry to break it to you, but nowhere on whitepages.com is there a phonebook-esque listing of names and numbers. (Not for free, anyway.) I never said that

I'm sorry to break it to you, but nowhere on whitepages.com is there a phonebook-esque listing of names and numbers. (Not for free, anyway.) I never said that it wasn't possible now. All I said was that it was just as possible then. You really think that ordering something by mail was a barrier to entry at a time when everything which could not be obtained locally was ordered by mail?