I don't think I'm splitting hairs here. The difference is that your name isn't in "gule sider", since it's a directory of businesses.
"Telefonkatalogen" was what other countries call "white pages", which is a directory of individuals.
The GP comment was indeed about the pre-Internet, but the whole point is that nobody publishes a big, widely distributed book with everyone's names in it anymore. You could literally get a book with every living adult in Norway listed. Sure, you have online services like 1881.no and gulesider.no that are the successors to this directory, but they're not at all the same thing.
> The difference is that your name isn't in "gule sider", since it's a directory of businesses.
I must be missing something; I can find pretty much every person I know in Norway in there by looking up their name (unless they have explicitly opted out).
"Telefonkatalogen" was what other countries call "white pages", which is a directory of individuals.
The GP comment was indeed about the pre-Internet, but the whole point is that nobody publishes a big, widely distributed book with everyone's names in it anymore. You could literally get a book with every living adult in Norway listed. Sure, you have online services like 1881.no and gulesider.no that are the successors to this directory, but they're not at all the same thing.