For shit sake, I know his name, I know the city he lives in, and I would recognize the street if I saw it Is there a way anymore to find the number of a dude my phone lost? without the stalker search shit?
whitepages . com
Used to be great, now it’s hit or miss. For whatever reason about half the time I use it I only get ‘premium results’, meaning I’d have to pay to see what they’re hiding. The other half the time I get exactly what I’m looking for. Address, phone number etc.
There’s also a handful of other fly-by-nite type websites that, in my experience, will get you better results if you’re looking for a cell number. Google your own number and see where it pops up. The other day I found mind on a site called nuwber . com. For the price of giving them my junk e-mail address, I got it removed.
See if your local public library provides access to ReferenceUSA. It has a white pages search.
Some places still have phonebooks.
We were on a family trip recently and had a layover in Australia. They had a phonebook in our hotel room. My kids (21 & 17) had no clue and asked what it was. After I explained, they looked at me in complete disbelief. Very funny.
Still get a phonebook every two years here. Free at the local Post Office.
Local phone company here gives them out free.
I changed companies and phone numbers.
It worked miracles for spam and junk calls.
Now I’ll never know what to do with a military flashlight in my handy walk in bathtub.
We just got a new phone book last week. We canceled the land line a couple of years ago. I don’t know if everyone gets them, or only people (they think) have a land line.
I’m sorry to hear that whitepages has gone downhill, it used to be very useful.
You may have to resort to the stalker-y approach. Do you know anyone else who knows him?
Outside the front to my apartment building there’s a stack of about 30 new phonebooks, one for each tenant. It’s been there for a few weeks and will eventually disappear, apparently someone getting around to throwing them away.
I still get one two/three times a year. While it’s still yellow, it’s small and thin and is now a “Local Shopping Guide”.
Actual page format and layout is the same as always, though.
I always use www.familytreenow.com
the local company frontier gives them out occasionally but its soo outta date …….
Are those white-pages or yellow-pages? The OP is talking about white-pages. Usually when they dump a bunch of phone books in front of an apartment building they’re only yellow-pages. Essentially, commercial advertisements, sorted by the type of business.
People seem to be scared of the concept now. I am on a few Airbnb groups on Facebook, and people freak out about guests knowing their address. Airbnb hides addresses until the booking is confirmed, and guests asking for the address ahead of time is seen as very suspicious. Also, on the “neighbors helping neighbors” pages I follow, some commenters are very reluctant to say what street they live on, even when it’s relevant information.
I try to remind people that just a few short years ago, it was common to publish everyone’s name, phone number and address in a book and deliver it, for free, to every person and business in the county, or even the entire metro area. And nobody had a problem with it then. Sure, you could request to have your number unlisted. But very few people actually did. Now, that’s considered “doxxing” and many jurisdictions have tried to outlaw the practice.
They’re both, combined into a book about 1 1/2 inches thick. Same as they’ve always been in Oahu, Hawaii. We have separate smaller books for each island. I don’t see them in the stack, but we used to 1/2 size books with the yellow pages only.
We still get phonebooks here. They are thinner than they used to be, and are helpfully put into plastic bags and thrown at the end of everyone’s driveway. :dubious:
I can easily find him on there, but there is no phone number. I just can’t figure out any way to look up the phone number of someone who isn’t trying to hide it, with
out paying like some creepy stalker trying to track down an ex.
I’m just pissed that the information world got this weird. My phone database lost a friend’s number. And there seems to be no way to get it back without being ripped off.
411 still works for my landline ; haven’t tried it from a cell in over a decade (best guess). (Area Code) 555-1212 is better if your aren’t in the same area code.
YMMV, worth a try, etc
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411 still works for my landline ; haven’t tried it from a cell in over a decade at least.
(Area Code) 555-1212 is better if you are not in the same area code.
There will be a charge for this service.
YMMV, worth a try, etc
We just had a new mini phone book placed on our front porch. My attitude toward the phone book these days is best summed up by comedian Pete Holmes: “Here, we’ve printed a portion of the internet for you to throw away.”
We actually got one (or apoor approximation of one) about a year ago. We just tossed it out. I didn’t know what they still made it, and I have no idea why they do.