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#165478 01/31/07 12:15 AM
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Hey eta, if you preface an address with woo-woo-woo people might assume it's a porn site.

#165479 01/31/07 01:06 PM
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>>>His ministers cured him of this by telling him that peacock was a beautiful word but a royal one, which a king should whisper when speaking before his subjects so they couldn't hear it. As a result, the speeches of George III were markedly less absurd.<<<




But who will ever know what he really whispered once they got him whispering?

#165480 02/01/07 03:47 PM
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for none computer nerds:
http = hyper text transfer protocol
a set of instructions (protocols) for hyper text.
HTML (one of the original "web" languages was
hyper text mark-up language.

www = world wide web (allegedly)

a URL is a universal resourse locator
which really means is an address to a specific server.

computer nerds love initalism

(my favorite, twain (the stuff your scanner uses
=technology without any interesting name.... )



Thanks Troy.
And furthermore, the "www" moniker harkens to a day when only large companies had servers as part of their business. The area that was allocated for access via the World Wide Web was placed in a subdomain.
That subdomain, by convention, was "www".
I find it annoying when I try to use subdomains appropriately (as in http://ponderables.twice21.com) but when relating the URL, it is assumed that the "www" prefix applies.
Due to the pervasive nature of the convention (using www subdomain) many servers now translate domain.com to be www.domain.com and vice versa.
Furthermore, with Internet Explorer, if you type "domain" in to the address bar and press Ctrl + Enter, it will apply "www.domain.com" automatically.


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#165481 02/01/07 04:32 PM
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Parkin, I don't know what browser you use, but when I type ponderables.twice21.com into the Firefox address box I get to this web page

or when I type ponderables.twice21.com into IE v7 (or use ctrl-enter), likewise.

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I think part of the problem with PT's link is that it contains an unwanted ). At least the link on the post, Dunno about what happens when he types the string, presumably without the ) in.

#165483 02/02/07 12:11 PM
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Yes, the unwanted paren was a symptom of "Fat Finger Syndrome".
However, my point was that ponderables.twice21.com is quite different than www.twice21.com and that is intentional.

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Parkin, I don't know what browser you use, but when I type ponderables.twice21.com into the Firefox address box I get to this web page

or when I type ponderables.twice21.com into IE v7 (or use ctrl-enter), likewise.




I quote myself, 'cuz nowhere did I use www and, based on this, I don't understand your complaint!?

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What he said.

Ta, Fallible, for unmincing my pâté. Now, where'd I put that mantle?


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#165486 02/02/07 11:23 PM
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... my point was that ponderables.twice21.com is quite different than www.twice21.com and that is intentional.




Perhaps ponderables.twice21.com is hosted by www.twice21.com.

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