![End of an era: the printed phone book has had its day...](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/titel-telefonbuch-300x225.jpg)
The last phone book
Switzerland’s last printed telephone directories were issued in 2022. What started in Zurich in 1880 now faces the final curtain. A look back.
![Telephone directory of the Zurich Telephone Society dating from 1880.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/telefonbuch-zurich-e1662475683496-161x300.jpg)
![Bern telephone book dating from 1881.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/telefonbuch-bern-e1662475623668-199x300.jpg)
![Putting up a telephone mast in Geneva, c. 1900.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/telefonnetz-230x300.jpg)
![The Hotel and Kurhaus Hochwacht Pfannenstiel featured its own telephone number in its 1923 advertising.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/postkarte-mit-telefonwerbung-300x192.jpg)
Collection of obsolete telephone books, 1966 (in German). SRF
This article was originally published on the blog of the Museum für Kommunikation.