Not Shave Related: Quick Survey

I see where my confusion comes from. Here, phone books were distributed from door to door when there still was a single party providing non-mobile telephony. With the migration to digital telephony, and multiple parties offering this, the paper phone books also disappeared.

We do have competition on the telephony and television market. But that is competition on modern services, like digital telephony, broadband data, mobile services, and television.

You can still get a landline if you want, I think, but nobody gets them anymore. And with the disappearance of analog landlines, also the paper phone books disappeared.

 

And I'm sure some of our younger members said What the ..... is that?
As soon as the Princess model came out my Mom had Dad ditch the black phone for a biege Princess.

 

We had these phones ... later you could pay extra to have them in green or red.

 

Did anyone see "The Intern"? Good movie loosely related to phone books.

 

We had gotten rid of our land line 5 years ago since we all had mobile phones.

 

I took the survey.

 

In most of the USA, a book called "Yellow Pages" is still published. It's a business paper phone book, and every listing is really a paid advertisement. It's delivered to the doorstep by a marketing contractor, and has nothing to do with the actual phone system.

 

Jeez....maybe 12 years.
I was an early cell phone adopter and internet adopter. I can't really remember. It's been forever

 

That was called "Gouden Gids" (golden pages) here. I think it was distributed last about ten years ago.

I think (almost) every household has a broadband internet connection here; isn't that the case in the USA as well?

 

Even more absurd than a phonebook... published yearly on dead trees for about 20 years now:
↪The 2017 edition of the 'phonebook' of German websites..
A bargain at merely $21. The mind boggles.

 

I wonder if that's available as an ebook

 

Now there's a book "Fur Dumme Leute".

 

There was one?

 

I used the yellow pages just last week to find a plumber. I guess I could have gone online, but I went old school.

 

For the most part yes, although in some areas there is wide area broadband wifi on a city or department scale. Personally, I still have cable TV based broadband Internet access. The Internet in general is somewhat slow and expensive in the USA compared to many places in Europe and East Asia.

 

This is almost the same as reading a book. Some still want the actual book and others want to read them on there kindle.


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