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Eircom phonebook & golden pages - what's the point?

  • 11-08-2009 11:48PM
    #1
    Reesy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 715 ✭✭✭


    ...for those of of us who have the interweb, that is.

    The new ones arrived today, and I nearly pitched them straight in the recycling bin. Decided to reprieve them while I try to think of a use (or a recipient) for them. If I could tick a box & not get one, I would - and save all that paper & logistics.

    While I'm on the subject, on the cover of the new Dublin phonebook isn't that montage of a spitfire in RAF livery flying over Dublin 1? Nice plane, and they did save us (well, my people, anyway, if not Ireland) from the Luftwaffe, but I imagine it'll cause offence to one or two.


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  • #2
    NullZer0
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,629 ✭✭✭NullZer0


    If you have dual monitors, you can use both books (one under each monitor). ;):D


  • #3
    rmacm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,039 ✭✭✭rmacm


    Ehhh does this have any relevance to Nets & Comms?

    OP I can move it to some other forum if you want.....


  • #4
    le_dazzler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60 ✭✭le_dazzler


    iRock wrote: »
    If you have dual monitors, you can use both books (one under each monitor). ;):D

    class ... i shall be stealing this line!


  • #5
    Solair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,227 ✭✭✭Solair


    I'd say the phonebook will vanish in a few more years. In France, they were a couple of decades ahead of the rest of the world in this area, back in 1983 they handed out free Minitel terminals instead of paper phonebooks. It sparked a pre-internet online revolution in France.

    It also makes more sense to have an electronic phonebook as otherwise you're only getting a snapshot of the database each time the book is published. So, you miss out on new businesses, can't find people if they've recently moved etc.

    I also suspect Ireland must have one of the highest number of ex-directory phone numbers in Europe. There are very few people actually listed.


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