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Re:Web Scrapers Claim to Sell Personal Data on Facebook User... by kbenson on Monday October 04, 2021 @08:59PM (#28754331)
I think we actually had that, bought on a whim by my Dad at a computer show in the 90's. We had some fun looking up how many people with certain first/last names were in the US, but didn't have much other use for it.

And funnily enough, family members of mine have started multiple businesses named A-1 something. :)

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Re:Web Scrapers Claim to Sell Personal Data on Facebook User... by culpable_pickle on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @02:01AM (#28755947)
Do you know why they used A-1 rather then A+? I've always wondered, but never knew anyone to ask.
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Re:Web Scrapers Claim to Sell Personal Data on Facebook User... by kbenson on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @02:30AM (#28756117)
I don't know, but I'm also not entirely sure how phone books sorted back in the day (they predate ASCII by quite a bit), or if it was even consistent across locales (probably, at least before the baby bells), so for all I know A- sorted before A+, and nobody wants to be just A-.
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