The Daily Populous

The local business directory that helped JR Hartley find his book on fly fishing is set to go out of print.

The Yellow Pages will no longer be published on paper from next year onwards, more than five decades after it launched in the UK.

Richard Hanscott, chief executive of Yell, said: "After 51 years in production Yellow Pages is a household name and we're proud to say that we still have customers who've been with us from the very first Yellow Pages edition in 1966. »

At the time, not only was homosexuality illegal, but those in the armed forces could be shot for having gay sex.

He did not want to be in the Army, and even pretended to have epilepsy to avoid it.

"Wouldn't it be wonderful if all our letters could be published in the future in a more enlightened time. »

At one such gathering, he told Armstrong, he saw Michaels “dancing as if he’d never seen another ­human being dance before.

NBC wanted a show concept from Seinfeld, so he worked with David to develop the idea they had at Lee’s.

They quickly agreed the main characters should be Seinfeld and a David-type — who became Jason Alexander’s George Costanza — plus a neighbor. »

We wanted to make sure the community could keep the site alive should the company go under and making the code available was the logical thing to do.

Such balkanization means that merges are getting increasingly difficult, especially as the company grows and more developers are touching the code more frequently.

These will still be accessible in their current state, but will no longer receive updates. »