Yellow Pages, the Internet, and Browsers

Some people might say that the yellow pages are the original business data base. Researchers of business history find these time capsules buried in such places as Baker Library at the Harvard Business School. They are a fascinating snapshot of what people once bought and sold. The Yellow Pages, a history The first yellow pages were not yellow at all. They appeared in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1878 and contained no phone numbers....

1 June 2005 · Katherine M. Lawrence