IPhone stolen, how to get old contacts back?

My iphone has gone and I have a new one on insurance. My old phone had ten years of contacts on it that the guy in the shop had transfered from my previous phone when I first got the iphone. I have a vague memory of a colleage at work setting me up on itunes on a work computer but I had never used itunes and stupidly never sync-ed or taken a backup of my contacts as far as I am aware, although presumably there must have been something that happened right at the beginning to get my phone started. Is there any way I can find my  old contacts? They did not immediately appear when I plugged my new phone in - all I got was a random list of email addresse when I asked it to look at my google account. Do they exist on a file somewhere?

Your contacts are gone. The iPhone was never designed to be a stand alone storage device. While contacts are included in the iPhone backup, that backup only happens if you sync or manually create a backup. Since you don't sync(bad idea), no iPhone backup exists to restore from. Further, contacts are designed to be synced with a supported contact application on your computer. Had you been doing things, as designed, it would be a simple matter of restoring your contacts. Don't make the same mistake with your new phone.

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