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I'm surprised this is notable these days, because the mapping of numbers to names used to be a completely free service that was dropped off on everyone's front
by kube-system 1y ago
I'm surprised this is notable these days, because the mapping of numbers to names used to be a completely free service that was dropped off on everyone's front porch.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_directory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_directory
- miki123211 1y agoPhone directories were one of these weird "one way" services. In principle, you could use them to map numbers to names, but the way they were designed, it was a lot more effort than using them to map names to numbers. That was deliberate I think.