> Apparently such things have value to some people, mostly businesses. It was more valuable when we didn't have smartphones or couldn't just look up any number

> Apparently such things have value to some people, mostly businesses. It was more valuable when we didn't have smartphones or couldn't just look up any number online at any time. There was an advantage in having an easy to remember number that didn't require people to look in the yellow pages. Yes, I was there 3000 years ago.