Marianna Scenery Hill Telephone Company Phonebook

People didn’t stop using phone books all at once, but their decline really began in the late 1990s and early 2000s with the rise of the internet and mobile phones. As online search engines, digital maps, and smartphones made it faster to look up businesses and people, bulky printed directories became less practical. By the 2010s, many households no longer received phone books at all, and businesses shifted their advertising to websites and social media instead of the Yellow Pages. Today, phone books are mostly a relic of the past, occasionally printed in limited areas—but they largely serve as a reminder of how people once connected before information was instantly searchable.