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I wonder why the didn't pick web. instead of www. Not the best alternative for sure but at least a thousand times easier to pronounce.

• jamespitts 16y ago
  While it was wordy, the use of www and "world wide web" added a certain cuteness and folksiness to the technology. This, along with the very simplicity of setting up a web page, helped fuel its adoption. WWW indicated that the technology was about community and universal access, and early art appearing on the web fed into this. The smiling-fat-spider-on-a-web and the Earth-meshed-with-circuits may have not seemed so inviting if it were just a web and not The World Wide Web! Plus it sure was enjoyable to watch people on television stumble through double-U double-U double-U dot...
  • mikeklaas 16y ago
    To this day I can't figure out why people don't say "triple double-u". It's so much shorter, but more importantly, flows great.
    • toolate 16y ago
      Dub-dub-dub.
• eru 16y ago
  Maybe because they were based in Switzerland, and did not say double-you?
  • pluies 16y ago
    That's an interesting take. However, Tim Berners-Lee is English (born in London), and the CERN is located in Genève, in the French-speaking part of Switzerland. In French, 'w' is pronounced "double-vé" (quick & dirty phonetic translation would be "doobleh-vay" in English). Neither English nor French really make pronouncing "www" easy. I tried to find out how 'w' is pronounced in German, but I didn't have much luck. Does anybody knows?
    • eru 16y ago
      I happen to be German: `We' in German and `Vae' may be an approximate English rendering.