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- tippmann1, on 10/10/2007, -9/+469why the hell cant my computer just read my mind yet?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+292The site no-www.org has not had a post since 2005. This is stupid.
- r0b1, on 10/10/2007, -5/+189Things are going way too fast. I'm still typing in http://
- JefffN, on 10/10/2007, -3/+163 "The World Wide Web is the only thing I know of whose shortened form takes three times longer to say than its long form."
– Douglas Adams, The Independent on Sunday, 1999 - Roger, on 10/10/2007, -2/+119You know http://www.[site].com isn't the same as http://[site].com ?
- Terr01, on 10/10/2007, -7/+123If you set up a web server, it's your responsibility to make sure that the WWW is effectively optional but allowed.
Bad: Requires the lead 'www'
Worse: Breaks when someone uses 'www' - dvsbastard, on 10/10/2007, -2/+116I still put :80 on the end! :(
- twrife, on 10/10/2007, -16/+113People still use that?
- drewfer, on 10/10/2007, -6/+89I rarely ever type www. , maybe only when the website doesn't work.
- coollettuce, on 10/10/2007, -2/+77Gosh darn blog spam.
http://www.no-www.org/ (don't forget the www) - Archon810, on 10/10/2007, -6/+80Here's a trick (IE and FF):
Type into the browser bar: digg, ctrl-Enter. OMG, it's a miracle! - buggles, on 10/10/2007, -11/+7910 years overdue
- Nougat, on 10/10/2007, -5/+69Just so you know, here's the reasoning behind 'www.'
In a DNS name www.domain.tld -- TLD is the 'Top Level Domain.' These are .com, .net, .org, etc.
'domain' is the domain name, owned by the registrar.
'www' is the hostname, and refers to the specific computer.
Back in the day, when things were very simple, you would point your browser at http:// ("I am telling you to open a HyperText Transfer Protocol connection") www. ("on the computer named 'www'") domain. ("in the 'domain' domain") tld ("under the 'tld' top level domain").
After a while, browsers were coded to presume those things - if you didn't specify http:// (as opposed to ftp:// or some other obscure protocols), it would presume you meant http://. If you didn't lead with www., it would presume you meant to.
Now DNS is more robustly used than it was in the past, and the DNS names you use are basically masquerades of the host names that the machines use internally (especially in a Windows domain; I can't speak to *nix). People don't hand out their internal DNS structure to the public, because it's a security issue. - JordanM85, on 10/10/2007, -13/+73www is here to stay. No amount of diggs or lame website can change that.
- ptron, on 10/10/2007, -3/+54I always thought it funny that "world wide web" had less syllables.
- AnteChronos, on 10/10/2007, -12/+60The "www" is necessary in an environment where you want to differentiate your web server from, say, your mail server (or servers for other services) without having any ambiguity. Now that the web is mush more popular than most other services (how long since anyone's used gopher, for instance?), it may seem superfluous, but it still has it's uses.
- sundancekid503, on 10/10/2007, -6/+53I disagree, without the "www" how would I know not to to dial "digg.com" on my telephone?
- zzz@tkz, on 10/10/2007, -1/+43...world wide web...
- manicallday, on 10/10/2007, -1/+42Actually it can.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.03/brain.html - jcaino, on 10/10/2007, -3/+43hell, just type 'digg' and hit enter
firefox will automaticall pull up google's first result. - jkizzle, on 10/10/2007, -13/+48sorry, but quoting wikipedia doesn't make you credible.
- jackyyll, on 10/10/2007, -1/+36I still remember IP addresses :(
- RubberBand, on 10/10/2007, -16/+49Everyone knows that the only reason people say 'www' before the actual address is to sound tech-savvy to the computer-illiterate.
- skankyBacon, on 10/10/2007, -6/+38domain + Ctrl Enter = http://www.domain.com
domain + Shift Enter = http://www.domain.net
domain + Ctrl Shift Enter = http://www.domain.org - Bobski, on 10/10/2007, -1/+29I still think the best site name in the world is http://www.com - too bad it's never been developed into anything useful.
- onegoodsoul, on 10/10/2007, -13/+40I think everyone that agrees with this should do a little reading on the fundamentals of DNS and perhaps they will see fully qualified domain names are a "good" thing. Besides, most browsers today will automagically add WWW for the lazy people anyways.
Say NO to "no www". - eTronicGaming, on 10/10/2007, -0/+26You used www! =O
- mikeon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+24Don't forget the keyword shortcuts in firefox! Right click on a bookmark, go down to it's properties and add a keyword for it. Type that keyword in and bam, you get to that site. E.G. yt= youtube for me.
- wharlie, on 10/10/2007, -0/+23I like the people that tell tell you which letters are in capitals, when they say the web address.
- oflaherty, on 10/10/2007, -6/+29CTRL ENTER
- Kazanoe, on 10/10/2007, -6/+28Hah, I know what you mean.
'Just go to digg dot com...'
'do you mean http colon slash slash double you double you double you dot digg dot com?'
'No, I didn't actually.'
As a side note, have you ever noticed that for some reason, they picked the WORST letter to use? I mean, I wouldn't mind aaa, or anything else. 'w' just has too many syllables. - santaliqueur, on 10/10/2007, -0/+21More importantly, will anyone care?
- 10001, on 10/10/2007, -0/+19true statements are true
- meatmcguffin, on 10/10/2007, -1/+19Ever tried saying slashdot's address?
h t t p colon slash slash slash dot dot org - jlgosse, on 10/10/2007, -0/+18What!? How does www look anything like affa-affa-affa?
- InetRoadkill, on 10/10/2007, -1/+19Because it's two distinct entries in the DNS name server. "www.domain.com" is a subdomain to "domain.com". However, a lot of sites will equate www.whatever.com to whatever.com. But some don't. It's rather annoying. Whenever I set up a DNS name server, I always set both the www and non-www to the same ip address for convenience. There's usually no reason not to.
- HigherLogic, on 10/10/2007, -6/+24Better: Redirects to 'www' if someone doesn't add it.
Sorry, website URLs feel naked to me without the leading www. Besides, I'm so used to typing in a domain without the TLD and hitting CTRL + Enter, where it automatically adds the .com and www. - tomi, on 10/10/2007, -1/+18This comment isn't really here, you've just had to much to drink. You shall now digg both comments. You will not remember this comment or any instruction I have given you.
- SiRwhilms, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16They are two separate DNS records: www as what we think of as a "subdomain", and just the plain domain. When you register a domain, it automatically sets the record for "www".
- seether166, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16I feel safe in the knowledge that a "genious" such as yourself was probably well-equipped to set said moron straight.
- mikes1, on 10/10/2007, -1/+17Agree.
The poster, and the article, are both clearly clueless about how DNS works, and the difference between a host name and a domain name. Damn noobs. - macguy815, on 10/10/2007, -2/+18my school's website requires the www.
And to think I wondered why they couldn't configure their novel servers such that they didn't crash when an entire class logged in at the same time. - mikesherov, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16um, no. If you own www.[site].com, you own [site].com. Now if you meant to say that people buy www[no dot][site].com, then you're right. This type of typosquatting has been around a long time.
- voyvf, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15perhaps they thought that if a person could not understand and pronounce three syllables, they shouldn't be on the ***** internet in the first place.
:D - noahhoward, on 10/10/2007, -1/+16world wide web fit better than alcoholics & alpacas anonymous
- tomi, on 10/10/2007, -1/+16net = shift
org = ctrl+shift - d03boy, on 10/10/2007, -2/+16The only pages that "need" www to work are the ones that are configured to only work like that. In other words, cut the crap and stop requiring the www.
- tnatharik, on 10/10/2007, -4/+17It has been there ever since it has been there.
- slicky803, on 10/10/2007, -4/+16That would be dangerous. A hot co-worker walks by and BOOM..porn site.
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