this post was submitted on 23 Oct 2023
958 points (97.4% liked)

memes

9643 readers
2220 users here now

Community rules

1. Be civilNo trolling, bigotry or other insulting / annoying behaviour

2. No politicsThis is non-politics community. For political memes please go to !politicalmemes@lemmy.world

3. No recent repostsCheck for reposts when posting a meme, you can only repost after 1 month

4. No botsNo bots without the express approval of the mods or the admins

5. No Spam/AdsNo advertisements or spam. This is an instance rule and the only way to live.

Sister communities

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] cordlesslamp 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So in movies where people flip through giant yellow phone book and try to call everyone with the same name in the area is a LIE?

[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think they eventually started combining them for payphones.

[–] MjolnirThyme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 10 months ago

They were frequently combined, the white pages were people in the local area and the yellow pages were businesses. I don't actually remember seeing white pages in any phone booths or by pay phones but that may just be where I lived.