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What Happened To WWW.? (hackaday.com)
submitted 2 months ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] cron@feddit.org 9 points 2 months ago (4 children)

It annoys me how www. is pronounced in english. Really, double-u double-u double-u dot example dot com?

[–] turkalino@lemmy.yachts 4 points 2 months ago

My favorite part of watching WWE is the way their main commentator says "WWE". You can tell he savors every syllable of it

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago

i like how saying "word wide web" is faster than saying "www"

[–] ZombieMantis@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

How else would you say it?

"Wwwwuuuuhh dot Google dot com"?

Edit: or I guess, "world wide web" would make more sense?

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

In other languages, German for instance, it's pronounced kinda like "weh" or like the letter V in English. It's easier to say that way. Back in the day I sometimes said "triple double u" to not have to say it the actual, complicated way 😅

[–] cron@feddit.org 7 points 2 months ago

"web" would have sounded nice and clear, we also didn't name FTP the World Wide File Transfer Protocol (WWFTP).

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 5 points 2 months ago

I've heard "dub-dub-dub". But yeah, saying the abbreviation is longer than the words it's abbreviating! 😀

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 5 points 2 months ago

"Wuh-wuh-wuh", using pronunciation similar to the start of "wow" or "woman"

[–] troglodyte_mignon@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Same thing in French. Doublevédoublevédoublevé. So. long.