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2. The history of the American phone book - AOL

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   1883: The Yellow Pages are invented. The business listings directory got its iconic look by accident in 1883 when a Cheyenne, Wyoming, printer ran out of white paper and made do with yellow paper ...

3. Telephone directory - Wikipedia

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   A telephone directory, commonly called a telephone book, telephone address book, phonebook, or the white and yellow pages, is a listing of telephone subscribers in a geographical area or subscribers to services provided by the organization that publishes the directory. Its purpose is to allow the telephone number of a subscriber identified by ...

4. History of the telephone in the United States - Wikipedia

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   The telephone played a major communications role in American history from the 1876 publication of its first patent by Alexander Graham Bell onward. In the 20th century, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) dominated the telecommunication market as the at times largest company in the world, until it was broken up and replaced by a system of competitors.

5. Telephone exchange names - Wikipedia

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   Kenmore 9392 is a five-pull (1L-4N) small-city telephone number for the Kenmore exchange in Fort Wayne, Indiana. MArket 7032 is a six-digit (2L-4N) telephone number. This format was in use from the 1920s through the 1950s, and was phased out c. 1960. BALdwin 6828 is an urban 3L-4N example, used only in the largest cities before conversion to ...

6. Telephone number - Wikipedia

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   A telephone number serves as an address for switching telephone calls using a system of destination code routing. [1] Telephone numbers are entered or dialed by a calling party on the originating telephone set, which transmits the sequence of digits in the process of signaling to a telephone exchange.

7. 411 (telephone number) - Wikipedia

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   411 (telephone number) 411 is a telephone number for local directory assistance in Canada and the United States. Until the early 1980s, 411 – and the related 113 number – were free to call in most jurisdictions. In the United States, the service is commonly known as "information", [1] although its official name is "directory assistance".