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Posted by dorayme on 01/03/06 01:41
In article <Xns973F94D67C0A0stanmccann@216.234.192.142>,
Stan McCann <me@stanmccann.us> wrote:
> Jose <teacherjh@aol.nojunk.com> wrote in
> news:59Tsf.387$xz.307@newssvr17.news.prodigy.com:
>
> > What is the purpose of the common www prefix for websites, and what
> > does www2 mean? What is the difference between a site like
> > www.mysite.com and mysite.com?
>
> Legacy. In the beginning (of the www), there were servers each with a
> host name. Then came web server software that ran on servers being set
> up as a www server. There were so few at the time, www became a
> natural host name for the www server. www2 came as a result of
> unimaginative sysadmins setting up a second www server.
Now this is starting to be a good explanation Stan. (I mildly
complained before...)
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