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It 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
by DrCatbox 15y ago
It 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.]