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Phonebooks were a thing not so long ago...

• mdp2021 2y ago
  And they contained data of which people allowed disclosure. When you did not want your information to be published, you informed the telephony provider and the phonebooks would not include it.
  • exodust 2y ago
    For a fee. In Australia at least it cost money not to be listed in the phone book. Numbers were however tied to a property rather than individual personal phones in our pockets. When you think about it, mobile phone technology arrived quickly and caught everyone by surprise. Back in the 80s very few people thought we'd be carrying around "pocket TV phones" in such a short time.