The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldM to memes@lemmy.world · 5 months agoIt feels wronglemmy.worldexternal-linkmessage-square83fedilinkarrow-up1202arrow-down16
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minus-squareCreddit@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·5 months agoI do not pronounce that part of a URL. Who still does that? Why would you need to do that?
minus-squareJackbyDev@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·5 months agoBecause www.example.com and example.com, while the same website nearly all of the time, are technically different and could point to different places.
minus-squareGestrid@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-25 months agoTrue. And there’s also the websites that use “en.” or some other language code, and “www.” just leads to the language selection.
minus-squarePoolloverNathan@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·5 months agoSome people don’t know how to properly DNS, and IIRC some smaller DNS services don’t support CNAMEing the root.
minus-squareSnowclone@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoBecause it’s an artifact from a time when having a website for a business was entirely optional, and novel. This wasn’t happening everywhere.
I do not pronounce that part of a URL. Who still does that? Why would you need to do that?
Because
www.example.comandexample.com, while the same website nearly all of the time, are technically different and could point to different places.True. And there’s also the websites that use “en.” or some other language code, and “www.” just leads to the language selection.
Some people don’t know how to properly DNS, and IIRC some smaller DNS services don’t support CNAMEing the root.
Because it’s an artifact from a time when having a website for a business was entirely optional, and novel. This wasn’t happening everywhere.