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Posted by Malcolm Dew-Jones on 10/13/85 11:35
mudge (mudgen@gmail.com) wrote:
: Hello,
: I've noticed that most domain names have www. infront of them, but I
: realized that I really don't know why the www. part is there at all or
: what it is.
www stands for World Wide Web. The world wide web was originally a
concept in which some computers on a network called the Internet would use
a standard, very simple technique, to share data via pages of formatted
text now called "web" pages.
The name of the web page server was often chosen to reflect what it did.
So for example, a university might have a domain name of "ivyleague.edu".
In that case the domain name is the name of the university's entire
network.
That university would have many computers. Each computer would need a
name, like "billing-system.ivyleague.edu", "admissions.ivyleague.edu", or
"professor-browns-computer.ivyleague.edu", etc etc.
When they set up a computer to be a "web" server they gave it a suitable
name, such as "www.ivyleague.edu".
These days, most people running a web site don't have a whole bunch of
computers to look after. They have just one computer which is the only
computer in their domain. Since there is only one computer, there is no
reason to give a name to the computer other than the domain name itself.
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