Domain name by any other name
There was a time when the web wasn’t the only game in town. There were just as many Gopher, FTP and News (NNTP) sites as there were web sites. To distinguish web pages from other technologies, the familiar “www” was added as a prefix to the domain names.
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It also means that most people by default start every web address with “www” even though we don’t necessarily have to. Today I told someone about my del.icio.us links and he typed
before I could stop him.
I am a big fan of shortcuts and typing
instead of
is a savings of four keystrokes.
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