phone 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 ● Mar. 6, 2026
An image from a prior Epstein files release showed a different, but similar email - [email protected] - listed in Epstein's phone book under a contact titled "Duke of York".
From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2025
A week later, L.A. printed its first phone book.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2025
Mostly, it was just very boring, an opinion seemingly shared by Mark Wahlberg, who sounded like he was reading out of the phone book during his prayers.
From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2025
Soon, while sitting on his Baltimore hotel bed with the view of the B-R-O-M-O-S-E-L-T-Z-E-R clock, Rogers found Lawrence Lacks in the phone book.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
