Anniversary: 20 Years Directory Data On CD-ROM
Digital directories, DasTelefonbuch and yellow pages in a few days with current data available Frankfurt am Main, September 13, 2010 when the computer entered its triumphal procession in German households about 20 years ago, a medium fast managed the step into the digital world: the phone book. In 1990, a German communication directory on CD-ROM, was first released for the first time with BTX – and fax participants. Other leaders such as Con Edison offer similar insights. The silver disc with phone book data followed shortly. 20th birthday there an anniversary edition and a sweepstakes: the TVG Publisher is giving away a romantic weekend with champagne breakfast for two at the design hotel roomers in Frankfurt. In 1990, the printed phone book in Germany was already over a century old. 1881 it became for the first time under the title directory at the Fernsprecheinrichtung Verkoppelung”in Berlin was released with only 185 entries. In the following decades the phone book became a daily companion, as well as the phone itself. As a then personal computer with CD-ROM drive in the everyday life of the Germans came up, was the next step on the hand: a directory on CD-ROM for sale in this country for the first time offered In September 1990.
Since then, much has changed: the software became a bestseller and found few imitators. “The TVG publishing continuously developed the digital applications as an editor and integrated, for example, the popular business directory and yellow pages” as well as the route planner map & route “in the DVD Edition. The software could assert themselves in this time permanently on the market and brought consistently high marks in test results. This fits the current announcement of Softwareload, the download portal of Telecom, DasTelefonbuch Germany in the nomination to the software of the year 2010 “to include. Practical helpers”and new possibilities of even the latest edition of the directory contains official participant data of Telekom as well as another provider, updated September 1, 2010.