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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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