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It'll never catch on.
by shingen 15y ago
It'll never catch on.
- DrCatbox 15y agoIt needs traction and to solve the chicken-and-egg problem. There is not many documents to look at, and to make people look at all these documents you need many people to put up their documents on such a proposed web, and in a special form!
- zalew 15y agoit needs a better name to get recognition. 'double-u double-u double-u' is hard to pronounce.
- joelhaasnoot 15y agoIt's actually in the Bible in some languages... Revelation 8:13 has "woe woe woe" which is "wee wee wee" in dutch, which does translate to "double-u double-u double-u"
- zalew 15y agothey better check if it's not something offensive in chinese.
- iamgoat 15y agoI usually say "triple-double-u" when I reference it verbally. I had a project manager long ago that would say dub-dub-dub and it just sounded silly to me.
- Angostura 15y agoBack in the mid 90s a colleague embarked on a (fruitless) attempt to get all the people he knwe to call their Web hosts 'web' as in web.example.com. A shame that he failed, I feel.
- jonhendry 15y agoThat was always my preferred alternative. WWW just sounds kinda stupid, especially when people try to read out a URL on TV or radio.
- marquis 15y agoConsidering that people still type www even when asked to go to an IP address, I'm not sure this would have changed anything in regards to non-technicals' understanding of how the internet works.
- literalusername 15y agoUnless httpd is running on a different server from your second-level domain, and your primary use of your second-level domain is something other than serving http, then the use of a www subdomain is silly. Changing it to "web" makes it no less silly. There once was a movement to do away with it, but sadly http://no-www.org/ http://no-www.org/ appears to have been essentially abandoned -- or at least very rarely updated.
- foxit 15y agoYou wouldn't believe how many webservers still can't direct you to the page without the www, I'm afraid.
- dripton 15y agodub-dub-dub
- george_morgan 15y agoAmusingly, it requires more syllables to say ‘W.W.W.’ than it does to say ‘World wide web’.
- httpsuckslikepg 15y agoHey, neat, you managed to point out something which is not even slightly amusing!
- jaylevitt 15y ago"triple-dub".
- nailer 15y agoOr 'dub-dub-dub'
- denniedarko 15y agoBush middle name-esque: dubya dubya dubya
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- brlewis 15y agoTo learn how the WWW eventually gained traction (after a slow start) you should look less at CERN and more at NCSA. Mosaic was the turning point. [EDIT: The parent comment was a worthwhile contribution to this discussion and I'm disappointed it was deleted.]
- abrahamsen 15y agoGopher is already too well established.
- davidw 15y agoYeah, and Gopher seems better organized than messy pages with links scattered here and there.
- tybris 15y agoThe only purpose I can see for this is another advertising channel.
- xanthor 15y agoSure is Reddit in here.
- coderdude 15y agoJesus Christ, no kidding. That was almost painful to see on here. If anyone is wondering, this is when it's appropriate to hit a thread with a barrage of down votes.
- Karunamon 15y agoSure is lack of humor around here. Is there an unwritten rule at HN that if something is chuckle-worthy, it's automatically not worth seeing? Downvote away!
- coderdude 15y agoThat's not what occurred here. What we have is a dozen people chiming in with short, "funny" comments that add nothing to the discussion. It was maybe a step away from a classic pun-thread and that is most certainly unwelcome. We don't dislike humor, but maybe we know when it's appropriate and when it's just nonsense spewed onto a page, over and over.
- thisduck 15y agoIt does add something to the discussion, and rather succinctly at that. It shows the type of dissent/criticisms new ideas hear. Some of these retorts did seem very reasonable back then. There is perhaps something to be learned from this hindsight.
- coderdude 15y agoMost of us have heard these common criticisms a dozen times or more. Merely writing them, one after to another, so that you can stand back and gaze at the irony you've just fabricated is not insightful and it doesn't add to the discussion. A single commenter could have succinctly identified that this is one of those rare occassions where the common wisdom of startups did not apply, and in fact practically spat in the face of it. We didn't need all the noise or attention seeking.
- flomo 15y agoAccording to Wired Magazine, the web is "not hot". People are sick of looking at pictures of your cat.