[X4U] How big is a DVD really? -> www-prefix

[Alec McKenzie]

At 18:06 +0100 on 22/11/06, B. Kuestner wrote:
>> 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.
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>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.

But these merely redirect to www....etc.

A server name comes before the domain name. This server name does not have to be www, it could be anything.
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Alec McKenzie
alec at mckenzie.me.uk