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1. DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab (djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology)'s status on Friday, 29-Dec-2017 19:24:17 EST DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab

   this is why retaining one's Rolodex was an important career move in the 1960s, '70s, and '80s.

   offline social yp lookup facility for your job search or your suppliers' inventory or your accounts payable or your family or anything else, in one box, personalized and chock full of metadata, yet malleable as you removed and added cards or info

   1. DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab (djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology)'s status on Friday, 29-Dec-2017 19:33:04 EST DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab

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      you wouldn't have handed your Rolodex over to a company to manage or organize or update, you kept it close and did it yourself. maybe a trusted assistant or partner that you would collaborate with over years. if it was part of a video game mission, it would be labeled "KEY DATA"

   2. Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK (vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Friday, 29-Dec-2017 19:45:16 EST Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

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      @djsundog especially In Europe towards end of 1980s there were also filofaxes (these being more portable). I still have my 1991 leather one somewhere and am half tempted to start using it again (its a UK company, the refills are still made - you even used to be able to print from Outlook to A4 sheets that could then be cut to the odd size a standard Filofax uses (this functionality has alas been removed from recent versions of Outlook)

      1. DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab (djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology)'s status on Friday, 29-Dec-2017 19:52:26 EST DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab

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         @vfrmedia we had similar here in the US, and they had a similar cross-over period where the digital world embraced their form and function, extended it onto the net, and extinguished its market ;) seems least we can do is swing the pendulum back again for a while maybe :)