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>having seen a lot of non-savvy users use Internet, I am firmly with WWW As an anecdotal counterpoint, at our family Christmas, I mentioned a few different url
by edmccard 10y ago
>having seen a lot of non-savvy users use Internet, I am firmly with WWW
As an anecdotal counterpoint, at our family Christmas, I mentioned a few different urls, spelling out "www" each time; one of my nieces said "why do you keep saying 'www'", and one of the other kids said "that's how old people find websites." After some discussion, it turned out that nearly everyone over 30 habitually wrote urls with "www" at the front, and everyone under 18 always omitted it.
- karlshea 10y agoAt least we've mostly gotten away from "h-t-t-p-colon-slash-slash..."
- bbcbasic 10y agoI heard https mentioned in a spoken url on the radio recently. And they said "that's with secure encryption"
- tomatsu 10y agoI always thought it was odd when they go with the whole "http://www." http://www." voodoo ritual, but then they skip the final slash after the domain.
- derefr 10y agoAFAIK the lack of a path part is allowed in an HTTP URL per RFC2616. http_URL = "http:" "//" host [ ":" port ] [ abs_path [ "?" query ]] > If the abs_path is not present in the URL, it MUST be given as "/" when used as a Request-URI for a resource (section 5.1.2). Browsers may differ on whether they auto-fix schemaless URIs, but they're all required to fix path-less URIs. So it's much "safer" to use them.
- edmccard 10y agoOr even worse, "h-t-t-p-colon-backslash-backslash..." from people who were used to saying "c-colon-backslash"
- netule 10y agoOr worse yet still "forward slash forward slash."
- michaelmior 10y agoHow is forward slash worse? At least that's the correct direction.
- netule 10y agoBecause it's a made up term. It's just called "slash."
- jclulow 10y agoMore like: solidus and reverse solidus!
- michaelmior 10y agoAt least it unambiguously refers to the correct character / as opposed the incorrect character \
- z3t4 10y agoits awesome that URL's can have different protocols. althoug most user/apps will asume http#/www
- DrScump 10y agoOr worse yet, "h-t-t-p colon reverse-backslash reverse-backslash..."
- mherdeg 10y agoWow yeah I bet those kids were not born back when web.mit.edu and www.mit.edu were still different things (plus see e.g. http://web.archive.org/web/19990208005346/http://mit.edu/ http://web.archive.org/web/19990208005346/http://mit.edu/ ).
- uranusjr 10y agoOr they just parse the URL differently. One possibility is to treat mit.edu as equivalent to www.mit.edu, and web.mit.edu to www.web.mit.edu. This is how I did it when I was a kid (and knew absolutely nothing about programming etc.)
- tr352 10y agoMy anecdote confirms your counterpoint. I too was once ridiculed for spelling out www in a conversation with some millennials. Made me feel old.
- mjl- 10y agohere's a weird thing about "www": in the netherlands, many people say the "www" out loud when mentioning a domain name, but then omit the dot after the "www". they do mention the dot before the TLD. so a domain like "www.example.nl" would be pronounced as "wwwexample.nl". to be clear, this is not something incidental. you hear it in radio and tv commercials. there might be a relation with age, with older people forgetting the "." after "www" more often.
- BrandoElFollito 10y agoThis is interesting, I never realized this is the same in France. Sometimes all the words "dot" are omitted. I will have a walk at the office tomorrow to have people read out loud www.example.fr and www.example.nl. This must be seriously researched :)