book

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For the internet to become what we think of as the internet, you also needed people like Paul Mockapetris, who created the domain name system that is known as the phone book of the internet.

From The Wall Street Journal

In books they always seemed to describe it clinically and technically.

From Literature

My mother named me out of a book she was reading the morning of the night I was born.

From Literature

Some of the book’s best advice might seem laughably obvious.

From The Wall Street Journal

From these narrow scraps grew “The Star of Redemption,” an audacious 1921 book conceived under fire that asks what remains of love—both human and divine—after war has marched a continent into the mud.

From The Wall Street Journal