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by fabatka 2936 days ago
I never considered this, but actually reserving IP addresses and telephone numbers for using in examples and fiction (as listed in the Example domains and names section) must be necessary. I'm curious how effective a prank would it be to switch an example phone number to a real one in a documentation that is read frequently.

Also, hallelujah for this: "In document titles and page headings, use sentence case. That is, capitalize only the first word."

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Then it's ironic that the title of the page is 'Google Developer Documentation Style Guide'
867-5309 is a phone number that can't be used anywhere (at least where phone numbers take that format.)
It's from an old Tommy Tutone song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WTdTwcmxyo