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Double-yoo double-yoo double-yoo. I really pity those that need to utter this acronym in english on a regular basis. The dutch, such as myself, usually get away with “waywayway”, roughly one third of the syllabes. But it is equally annoying and of course the english language is by no means to blame for its name for the letter w. It is this really odd convention to have URI’s of web sites start with www that is puzzling me. www stands for the world wide web and it is the sole right of web servers to bear www in their host names. But does the world wide web solely consist of web servers serving through http? Don’t ftp, ssh, time, usenet, mail, etc. count? I bet the web wouldn’t be the same without them.

It increases the length of URI’s by four characters, it is annoying to have to pronounce it all the time and on top of that the acronym is meaningless. From today on I’ll refuse to ever type www again and I hope many, many others will follow to get rid of the stupid thing once and for all.