I just wondered, if we always prefix www before any site's address e.g. www.yahoo.com; www.rediff.com, why at all should we have www as part of website's address. Is itn't redundant?
2007-02-04 19:53:02 · 10 answers · asked by Arun Kumar 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
www stands for 'world wide web' and its supposed to be an abbreviation. but it actually has more syllables and takes longer to say 'www'. pretty silly. sites started the www thing when the internet was younger and it was easy to know if things were a site or not when they were written down.
2007-02-04 19:58:25 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
www isnt redundant. A computer connected to the internet can access some servers which are connected throught the internet using the computers ip address.
Say you access ww.yahoo.com it will go to some Ip Address 100.26.23.34 ( Example). Suppose you want to access FTP of the same yahoo. ftp.yahoo.com which is on the same server. You cant access it unless you specify ftp.yahoo.com.
A server connected to the internet has a Public IP Address which can be reached from anywhere in the world. So if one such IP address is used for accessing only one service like website, you need to waste multiple IP address for Multiple Services.
So www, ftp etc are different services using the same IP Address followed by a Port Number
So www.yahooo.com would give a connection to 100.26.23.34:80 ( Example).
Similarly ftp:yahoo.com would give a connection to 100.26.23.34:21 ( Example).
So a single ip can be used to Host different kind of services.
If you need further clarifications please get back to me.
2007-02-04 21:52:54 · answer #2 · answered by Sunil Saripalli 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It wasn't redundant in the past as often they'd be responding to different protocols, like ftp, nntp, etc etc. the www would then correspond to hypertext.
Nowadays it seems redundant, but sometimes some servers are configured in a way that actually requires it. these see a difference between yoursite.com and www.yoursite.com with the former giving you an error. But most times, it doesn't matter.
But why fix what's not broken.
2007-02-04 19:59:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Prefixes are commonly used as a naming convention for servers. 'www' represents most web addresses, 'ftp' for file transfer protocol, 'nntp' for news, etc.
Most people today are only aware of web servers (www) rather than all the other types of servers available, and as a result they assume that the internet is simply made up of websites (i.e. web servers) rather than other less known types.
2007-02-04 20:01:24 · answer #4 · answered by asleep 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The World Wide Web ("WWW" or simply the "Web") is a system of interlinked, hypertext documents that runs over the Internet. With a Web browser, a user views Web pages that may contain text, images, and other multimedia and navigates between them using hyperlinks.
by the way, are you Arun that previously work from TCE?
2007-02-04 19:58:39 · answer #5 · answered by ahleks 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
good question. www is to explain to the server that u are accessing a website that is on the world wide web, not on a different source like an ftp (file transfer portal)
http://www.-----------.com is a webpage
http://ftp//-------------------- is an ftp
this explains to the server it the different part of the web you're accessing
2007-02-04 20:07:12 · answer #6 · answered by 60percent 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
world wide web (www)
it makes a website world widely used
2007-02-04 19:55:38 · answer #7 · answered by Harvinder 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
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2016-11-25 03:07:39 · answer #8 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it is but if you have IE7 then you really don't need to put it in the address just type location and the .com, .org or .net
2007-02-04 19:58:32 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Glad you asked as I wonder the same I will be following your answers..Thanks for the question
2007-02-04 19:59:03 · answer #10 · answered by royneal 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋