#beforegoogle

I told a group of kids today that I’m older than Google. They laughed, thinking it was a total joke. It hit me just how much the world has transformed in less than three decades. For those of us born before September 4, 1998, we span two distinct eras. We grew up using physical encyclopedias, memorizing landline phone numbers, and actually getting lost on road trips. Now, we carry the sum of human knowledge in our pockets. We are the bridge between the analog past and the AI-driven future. Your technology should reflect that unique blend of classic experience and modern style. Wrap your daily driver in something that honors the journey. 🌌

The yellow pages are any telephone directory of businesses, organized by category rather than alphabetically by business name, and in which advertising is sold. The directories were originally printed on yellow paper, as opposed to white pages for non-commercial listings.

The name and concept of "yellow pages" came about in 1883, when a printer in Cheyenne, Wyoming, working on a regular telephone directory ran out of white paper and used yellow paper instead.

But the man behind the success of  YP was no one other than Loren Murphy Berry, known as "Mr Yellow Pages." He expanded his operations to Europe, where the product is called the Golden Pages. The company sold advertising space and handled production for many of the local Yellow Pages.