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In 1994, the "Official Internet Yellow Pages" was published as a massive physical directory containing over 10,000 entries for the burgeoning World Wide Web. Published by New Riders and Osborne McGraw-Hill, these books attempted to categorize the internet in a format similar to a telephone directory. Today, these volumes serve as collector's items that document the early command-line and newsgroup era of online culture.
Under United States law, book titles are not eligible for copyright protection, leading to frequent market confusion when multiple publishers release works with identical names. This was notably seen with competing "Internet Yellow Pages" editions in the 1990s, where publishers like McGraw-Hill expressed frustration over rivals using the same title. Despite industry complaints, the lack of legal protection for titles remains a standard aspect of the publishing business.
