I was talking to a coworker about these new phishing attacks that send your name and address and sometimes a picture of your house, and I was saying how creepy it is, and they told me that phonebooks were delivered to everyone and used to have like literally everyone in a city listed by last name with their phone number and address. Is that for real?
You could opt out of being listed, but anyone who did that was considered a weirdo hermit. Why would you not want someone to be able to call you?
Oh God, it feels so weird saying it nowadays.
And didn’t you have to pay to not be listed?
You did, at least eventually. This could be argued to be a very early, not to mention analog, form of enshittification.