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It was literally Epstein's physical contact list, his literal, little black book of compiled contacts, his own personal phone book.

Back before the widespresd proliferation of personal computers... it was pretty common for high powered business types to have such a thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolodex

It was quite common for such people to have something like this, a rolodex, to the point where even still today, older corpos will use the term 'rolodex' sort of as jargon, not necessarily meaning a literal rolodex, but if someone is 'in your rolodex', that means they are in your personal, private contact list.

Then, as now, very high level business is entirely about who you know and who you can network and cooperative (cough, collude) with.

But uh yeah, its just an old school method of keeping your contacts. You can even see this in the history of ... I think the word is skeuomorphy, skeuomorphisms?

What symbols we use to represent what kind of functions in user interfaces. Etymology for UI symbols, kind of.

For quite a while the 'save' function was... a 3 1/2 inch floppy disk. But this is now totally ananchronistic, so its started to change.

Likewise, a 'contacts list' was, and often still is a symbol evocative of a small, pocket sized little note book.

Something like this:

https://www.amazon.com/Iconikal-Spiral-Bound-Address-Telephone-Plastic/dp/B07Z9KS94Z

You gotta remember Epstein was doing this shit since the 70s/80s.

Like I dunno, go play Vice City and notice how big a deal it is that a character even has a car phone, or even a cordless phone in their office or w/e... notice how nearly no one uses a computer, of any kind, for anything.

Hell, even myself, as a kid in the 90s, I had something like this for all my friend's phone numbers and local stores and libraries and shit, before smart phones were invented... though I just wrote them all in with a pencil.

(back in my day we had to actually remember phone numbers! and that cloud over there is looking at me funny!