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Re: WWW Stands For Worthless3

Daniel Miessler — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 21:56:27 -0000

Actually, I believe that just typing the body itself will do the trick; I don't think we need to do the protocol *or* the TLD - at least for .com domains. It could get a bit tricky when a .com exists and you want to go to the .org, but these are fairly rare during a given day (for me anyway).

Hmm, so I wonder if I should edit my post ... yeah, I think I will.

Re: WWW Stands For Worthless3

Brad Wolfe — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 16:58:23 -0000

in the line of effiiency. If you mean effiiency on your part, in typing etc., i ALWAYS enter addresses that are prepended with "www." and appened with ".com" as the body followed by ctrl+enter. You should try this. so, in the address bar, you would type wired then hit ctrl+enter and then www.wired.com appears in the address bar. All that I can figure w/o more research is that this combination of key works in win 2000 and up, mozilla, and IE, and only with www.___.com addys. I may play w/ it some more to give you more info if you want it. Let me know if you already do this regularly so that I may attack myself appropriately.

Re: WWW Stands For Worthless3

Jason — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 13:06:57 -0000

An excellent thing, as Douglas Adams pointed out that "double-u, double-u, double-u" is the only abbreviation that takes three times longer to say that the phrase is stands for. However, I hand out URLs all day long on the phone, and I never prepend the www. It never fails--the person on the other end *always* says, "http-colon-slash-slash-double-u-double-u-double-u?"
"Yes," I say. "Yes...that's absolutely right."

People will do things the *long* way because it's what they're familiar with...they do *not* like change, even when it's obviously to their benefit.