BT, the former British Telecom, has put its archived telephone books dating back to 1880 online. BT partnered with the subscription-based website, Ancestry UK, to offer a searchable database that will ...

Once a mainstay of homes, businesses, and phone booths everywhere, the phone book has (mostly) gone the way of the dodo. Spokeo examined historical documents, news reports, and other sources to ...

What’s the deal with telephone books? That’s the way Jerry Seinfeld would ask the question. Why aren’t phone books obsolete yet, long ago relegated to the trash can of history? That’s a fair question.

When is the last time you found someone's phone number using a phone book? If you don't have it stored in your phone, you can usually find it online. So what are people using the phone book for? Even ...

Online phone directories can be a useful tool in looking up someone's number or address, much like a traditional paper phone book. However, the online phone books also provide maps and directions to ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Q: There used to be city directories and then there were telephone directories and now there is no way to get the address or phone number of an old friends ...

The phone book, a one-time necessity that many now consider a wasteful nuisance, is about to disappear from your life forever. Frontier Communications, which provides landline phone service in the ...

BT is saying goodbye to its digital directory this week. After April 30, the digital directory, The Phone Book Online, which lets users look up a person's or company's phone number, will be ...

What's black and white and read all over? Not the white pages, which is why regulators have begun granting telecommunications companies the go-ahead to stop mass-printing residential phone books, a ...