On Phone Books & Other Obsolete Items

As we shivered our way into 2018, reveling in actual winter weather that is giving away to spring, I started thinking about all the items and services rendered obsolete in the past few years, at least for me. For example: Phone books. Print versions of phone books are rapidly becoming obsolete. For years, I have chunked the ones plopped in our driveway straight into the recycling can. If I need to find an address or phone number for a business or any other public entity — a courthouse office, for example — I go to Google. As fewer folks have land lines in their homes, the phone book has become...

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