Monday, January 12, 2009

LAN lines and phone books?

Tonight, I saw a television advertisement for the newest AT&T "Real" Yellow Pages. Personally, I haven't used a telephone directory in literally YEARS! Initially (back in 1983), the only numbers I dialed (btw, that's an old phrase which was used back in the days of rotary dial phones) were those which I had dialed on a regular basis (back in those days, I was in college and logged all the frequently dialed (there's that word again!) in a small loose-leaf notebook. Over the years, it went from being typed on a manual typewriter, then some of it handwritten, then later, they accumulated and were entered into a Palm pilot, then to the various cellphones I have owned over the years. Now, with the dawn of the Internet, one can look up virtually any number, then save it on their cellphone. 


So, I ask, "Why are they (AT&T, Verizon, or whoever) printing phone books, which are destroying our environment (trees), especially when they are either inaccurate or going to just be immediately recycled?