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

[B. Kuestner]

>> 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.

I feel like many of the replies are missing the original idea of the  
first post and my response:

We're stuck with a suboptimal www-abbrevation. And wouldn't it be  
nice if the course of history had agreed on "web" instead? (Not  
something that will likely come true, but we're all free to daydream.)

I then added that in fact we're stuck with a suboptimal abbreviation,  
when technically no servername is needed at all. Implying that  
wouldn't it be even nicer we went from "www.ibm.com" to "web.ibm.com"  
to "ibm.com" But again the course of history has decided, so that now  
both users and site admins treat the www-thingy like a must.

The server name before the domain was conceived before there were  
clusters, with the idea of specifically targeting one machine. The  
whole concept is obsolete by now due to the developments in  
technology with clusters of servers serving one domain. But the  
server abbreviation has still survived.

If there's one thing we can learn from that, then how easy it can be  
to start a tradition. (c:

Björn