Nov 252008
I’ve noticed that the WWW is starting to disappear. Type www.twitter.com into your address bar and you’ll end-up at twitter.com – no dub dub dub. The same applies to FriendFeed.
Is WWW an endangered species? Is it destined to become the appendix of the internet? It’s there, but no-one uses it and you can remove it without any problems.
Are there any other sites that have had a dubdectomy I wonder?
The World Wide Web is the only thing I know of whose shortened form takes three times longer to say than what it’s short for.
– Douglas Adams, The Independent on Sunday, 1999
The www seems like such a waste to me. It just clutters things up, creates extra typing for millions of people, and makes your URL harder to read. It’s so much cleaner without it!
I set up redirects on our website to make sure that both http://www.adventurouswench.com and plain old adventurouswench.com go to the same place. There are some sites where if you just type the address without the www it will give an error, whereas obviously you want people to reach your real site instead.
Now if we could just get rid of http:// too… (-:
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