Originally posted by RhymesterYou dont have to type in WWW like say if you try to go to RHP you dont have to type in www.redhotpawn.com you can just type in redhotpawn.com
Why do we need to type WWW? I don't need to type http:// because that's added automatically by my browser.. so why not the www.
Are there other parts of the internet that are reached by addresses begining with another 3 letters?
Rhymester
-Adam
Yes I just found that out 😳
However, if we don't need to type it and the browsers know it should be there then whty do we need it? Web addresses have .com, .co.uk etc after them so it's not as if they could be anything else.
Perhaps it's a plot by manufacturers of 'w' keys to make use wear them out faster ;-)
Rhymester
Originally posted by RhymesterI think that you use to have to type in WWW but now if you dont the computer does it for you😀
Yes I just found that out 😳
However, if we don't need to type it and the browsers know it should be there then whty do we need it? Web addresses have .com, .co.uk etc after them so it's not as if they could be anything else.
Perhaps it's a plot by manufacturers of 'w' keys to make use wear them out faster ;-)
Rhymester
-Adam
I believe there are other domains (?) other than www, such as www2 or a numerical sequence (eg 80.12.565.987). They aren't as common, but www isn't the only one you can go to therefore you need to specify. However, if you omit to enter anything, modern brosers may automatically add it for you these days.
Originally posted by belgianfreakBeing a graphic designer I'm getting pretty fed up with trying to fit 30+ character web addresses into tiny spaces and you can't really hyphenate them. Surely we'll drop all the preamble one day and just type redhotpawn.com etc.
I believe there are other domains (?) other than www, such as www2 or a numerical sequence (eg 80.12.565.987). They aren't as common, but www isn't the only one you can go to therefore you need to specify. However, if you omit to enter anything, modern brosers may automatically add it for you these days.
Rhymester
Originally posted by belgianfreakWhat if you don't make it back.... it all sounds very Alice through the looking glass 😉
same as any other web site, whatever anyone puts on it. just hosted on www2. I don't really know what it all means, but I know it exists. If I find a link on someting other than www I'll post it so you can see.
WWW, as I'm sure we all know, is an acronym for World Wide Web
It is a subdomain. A domain (in the case of this site, RedHotPawn.com) has a subdomain of ]www.
This is our main site. Say for example we wanted another site for chess puzzles, we could create another subdomain called puzzles.redhotpawn.com. (Note no 'www'😉 This could be treated as an entirely new site.
We could even create a secondary subdomain, and add www to the front to give us www.puzzles.redhotpawn.com. You get the idea.
Hope that is clear!
-Russ
BTW We could remove the subdomain altogether, and then this site could be accessed from redhotpawn.com alone if we wished.
The "www." part is arbitrary, but common practice. Most web admins use the "www" because the average user expects that he or she can find info at "www.productname.com". Want info on Guinness beer? Likely you can go to "http://www.guinness.com". (I just tried, and you can!) Surprising, but this works for almost anything. Tonite, I saw a musician named Deke Dickerson. Guess what: there's http://www.dekedickerson.com!! Deke and the Ecco-Fonics were excellent, by the way.
In general, if you type something without the "http://", your browser will probably use its preferred search engine to find the phrase you enter. If you type "guinness.com" in Internet Explorer, it happens to take you to http://www.guinness.com. But, if you type "guinnis.com", you end up at "http://search.msn.com/dnserror.aspx?FORM=DNSERR&q=guinnis.com", showing that MSN Search couldn't find any sites containing the phrise "guinnis.com".