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DNS

DNS - as interpreted by GPT-4 & DALL-E 3

DNS

dee-en-ess

Definition

The magical phonebook of the internet that turns 'coolwebsite.com' into '192.168.0.1,' unless it forgets, in which case the whole internet breaks.

Etymology

Short for 'Domain Name System.'

Usage Example

'DNS is down, so now my browser thinks the website doesn’t exist. Thanks, internet gods.'