Every website used to be like “www.example.com”. Now I rarely encounter this “www.”. Why did it even exist and where has it gone? I also used to run into websites with legitimate domains, but “ww1.” instead of “www.”, these were probably phishing sites, but how did this actually work on top of legitimate domains?

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    9 days ago

    You made yourself very clear. The people that set up your servers didn’t offer you the option and you’re trying to tell the community that www. was necessary because of that.

    /flex.

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      9 days ago

      Language is not as hard as you are making it. They made it necessary for users to type, something one may have been confused about if they read your novel of an explanation. I’m sorry you cannot see that I meant that even though I spelled it out so simply that a 5 year old would understand. I guess I should have paraphrased specification docs in around 1000 words then you might have gotten it.

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        9 days ago

        If my mom made me say a prayer before I ate, that doesn’t mean you have to pray to make food go in your mouth. YOUR HOST CHOSE TO SET UP YOUR SERVER THAT WAY. IT WAS NEVER NECESSARY FOR YOUR WEBSITE TO WORK, IT WAS A DECISION YOUR HOST MADE. Let me know if this is still too verbose for you.