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it needs a better name to get recognition. 'double-u double-u double-u' is hard to pronounce.
by zalew 15y ago
it 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