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How Ketchum, Idaho used to list Adam West in the phone book (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/funny@lemmy.world

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[–] ResoluteCatnap@lemmy.ml 22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Before the internet there were phonebooks for your city and/or region which listed household and business phone numbers among other info. This is where the term "yellow pages" came from which was the section for businesses categorized by type of business ("crime fighting" here) .