It’s still out there. Watching. Waiting. Uh… Winking?
Submitted 2 months ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to technology@lemmy.world
https://hackaday.com/2025/05/05/what-happened-to-www/
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sundray@lemmus.org 2 months ago
BambiDiego@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Wonmiserating?
vollkorntomate@infosec.pub 2 months ago
Some websites still require you to type www. explicitly.
For example, my university… Try tu-darmstadt.de and then try www.tu-darmstadt.de
I find that annoying because I’m lazy 😂
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s a 5-minute workaround in the server config. Hate it when idiots skip that. I’m no dev, but I’ve done it many times.
gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I am a dev, and it makes me think whoever is in charge is extremely incompetent.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 2 months ago
www is just a host name, totally arbitrary.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I prefer it, so I just redirect HTTP requests my root domain to the www version. I think it makes a ton of sense, since I www is merely one of the many services I host at my domain.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 months ago
When I was in school it was just when all this was starting and people were starting to get used to the internet. There are a lot of websites they thought were inappropriate for children to look at (mostly they were harmless). Anyway if you didn’t enter
www.in front of the web address, it bypassed all of the site block filters.echodot@feddit.uk 2 months ago
When I was in school it was just when all this was starting and people were starting to get used to the internet. There are a lot of websites they thought were inappropriate for children to look at (mostly they were harmless). Anyway if you didn’t enter
www.in front of the web address, it bypassed all of the site block filters.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
There’s a whole ass Home Movies episode where they keep saying “you don’t have to say www” in reference to how ubiquitous the web had become that you could talk about a website without needing to reference the www prefix.
That was over 20 years ago.
Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
I don’t remember that episode, but that’s a good pull. I imagine coach did not understand.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Pretty sure it’s a different episode, but there’s a credits joke of Coach registering “fenton’s naked mom dot com.”
ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
and then I sign it “Movie Guy”
is Movie Guy your pseudonym?
no it’s just a name I use instead of my real name
I love Home Movies
cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Its a subdomain you have to make sure you point to your main domain at your domain registar
Toes@ani.social 2 months ago
I’m still hopeful that gopher makes a comeback.
db2@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Archie and Veronica.
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
I’ve never used Gopher, but what do you think of Gemini?
9point6@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Also tangentially related: one of Tim Berners-Lee’s regrets is the two forward slashes between the protocol scheme and the domain name
bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
They even don’t support HTTPS on the older articles for that authentic 2009 internet
GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Plus domains should’ve gone left to right in terms of root, tld, domain, subdomain, etc., instead of right to left.
beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
Any old slashdotters remember tcwww, The Cursed www? Just me?
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
It’s easy to redirect a domain such as “archive.org” to “www.archive.org” and vice versa. Just a line in your webserver config. Or just serve it directly from the former.
taladar@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Ideally you want to do one or the other unless you really like the redirect loop error page in your browser.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m a rebel. And that’s my security plan.
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Security by
obscurityinfinite redirection
cron@feddit.org 2 months ago
It annoys me how www. is pronounced in english. Really, double-u double-u double-u dot example dot com?
Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
i like how saying “word wide web” is faster than saying “www”
turkalino@lemmy.yachts 2 months ago
My favorite part of watching WWE is the way their main commentator says “WWE”. You can tell he savors every syllable of it
troglodyte_mignon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Same thing in French. Doublevédoublevédoublevé. So. long.
ZombieMantis@lemmy.world 2 months ago
How else would you say it?
“Wwwwuuuuhh dot Google dot com”?
lurch@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
In other languages, German for instance, its pronounced kinda like “weh” or like the letter V in English. It’s easier to say that way. Back in the day I sometimes said “triple double u” to not have to say it the actual, complicated way 😅
cron@feddit.org 2 months ago
“web” would have sounded nice and clear, we also didn’t name FTP the World Wide File Transfer Protocol (WWFTP).
Wiz@midwest.social 2 months ago
I’ve heard “dub-dub-dub”. But yeah, saying the abbreviation is longer than the words it’s abbreviating! 😀
dgriffith@aussie.zone 2 months ago
“Wuh-wuh-wuh”, using pronunciation similar to the start of “wow” or “woman”
Decipher0771@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
It never got over you
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
Just like how back in the earlier days, you didn’t necessarily have to type “http://” before the www.
4am@lemm.ee 2 months ago
In the earliest days you absolutely did, it became optional later; especially once gopher:// stopped being a thing
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
The article seems to not understand the difference between a subdomain and a name.
No pont in reading.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There’s no WWW anymore. There’s content and there are Internet platforms. You should consume content and and hold your breath for what platforms have for you, as part of a crowd many-many times bigger than the one at Mecca. Not G-d forbid host websites and visit them, read what others have to say, see culture and history of something real.
Canadian_Cabinet@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Guys I don’t think they read the article
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They did. They are not obligated by any rule to limit their associations like some dumb apes do
taladar@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Originally the idea was that you would have a domain and then have a host under that domain for each service (e.g. mail.example.net, ftp.example.net, www.example.net,…). Of course eventually the web was used by a lot more people this directly than any other service so the main domain was also configured to point at the web server and then people added a redirect either in one direction (add www.) or the other (remove www.) on the first request.
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
The final piece is that often each of those services would be on a different computer entirely, each with a different public IP address. Otherwise the port is sufficient to sperate most services on a common domain.
There was a good long while where IP addresses were still unutilized enough that there was no reason to even try being conservative.
taladar@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Originally there also wasn’t any name-based virtual hosting, especially in SSL/TLS-based services like HTTPS so you needed one IP per name if you wanted to host multiple websites.
And part of the disappearance of www. now is probably that strange decision by Chrome to hide it.
CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Well also at one point www.domain.com may have actually been a single physical server. That hasn’t been true for sites of any size in a long time.
Psythik@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Yes that’s what the article said.
taladar@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Yeah, but in many, many more words than necessary to be honest.