Comment on Phonebooks

SonicBlue03@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• WoahWoah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’m amazed they were even that thin. It seems like they’d have to be huge.

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  • MolochAlter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Very small font on very thin paper.

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    • rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yeah it felt like the Bible and the white/yellow pages used the thinnest paper I’d ever seen

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  • jqubed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You also need to keep in mind that there were not nearly as many phone numbers back then. While today a family of 4 might have a cell phone for each person (especially by the time the kids are teenagers), in the 20th century most families just had one number for the whole household (and the earlier you go there might have even been just one actual phone in the house).

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• dharmacurious@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’m probably misremembering, but I swear our phonebook was at least 5 inches thick. We used collect the neighbors because they didn’t want them, and then me and my friends would stack them in the club house we chairs.

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