> Yes, but its caught on in popular use as well as using "web" to > replace "www" at the beginning of just about every URL in the > world. Regardless of how much better (just think how much easier it > is to say "web" than W-W-W), it just hasn't caught on. Worse than that, the www is actually not needed in the first place. Go to http://apple.com or http://ibm.com. But people (and some browsers) often believe that www is necessary for a valid URI. Björn