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[Quinn Wood <wood.quinn.s AT gmail.com>]

On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Peter Green <peter AT greenpete.free> wrote:
> Why 'www'? Isn't that a redundant throwback to when... well does anyone
> actually know why anyone used www as a sub-domain anyway?
>
Used to be you'd have one host per service. www, mail, ftp, irc. Now
you can run it all on one machine, and the extra hostnames are a bit
redundant. With www in particular you'll occasionally see someone
complain that your website "doesn't work" because they've specifically
put www into the address bar :)