Episode
ANTIC Interview 455 - Bill and David Lappen, Buy-Phone
ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast · Mar 15, 2025 · 48 min
Bill and David Lappen, Buy-Phone It's a dangerous game in the computer history field to call anything the "first." But Buy-Phone is a very strong contender call itself the first online yellow pages. Years before before Yahoo!, before Craigslist, Buy-Phone was a text-based dial-up service — available at 300 and 1200 bits per second — that provided business listings, movie times, and personal ads…