Before marching out of the office forever, however, he stormed back to his desk and grabbed his Rolodex. Not every Rolodex was alike. (The word is a trademark, by the way, a fusion of “rolling ...

Now that I can open the Contacts app on my iPhone and find the information in a few seconds—or better yet, just ask Siri to look it up—the idea of rifling through Rolodex cards seems a tad quaint.

The Rolodex is a cylindrical rotating card file on a tubular metal frame that holds A-Z index cards to store business contacts. Even today, the Rolodex has endured. It is still available on the market ...