It uses the same system used now to spell out words, such as 1-800-GEE-KSQUAD converting to 1-800-433-5778, or in the days of telephone operators where PennsylvniA 6-5000 became 726-5000.

Before the big Internet boom, there were a number of different ways to transmit information from Internet sites, and one of the youngest of them was the World Wide Web, at the time a series of links to text documents that spread out much like a spider’s web.