Do you type 'http://' when typing an address..

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: Baked

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: Trikat
I even leave out the www.

the www is there for a reason. use it.

What's the reason? Stop making things up.

it's the host name for world wide web for that domain. It follows URL convention/standard.

what if you wanted to go to the web page for the domain sales.buyme.com. ? you should use www.sales.buyme.com.

 

[Sid59]

firefox + main url (anantech) + CTRL ENTER = http://www.anandtech.com
firefox +main url + SHIFT ENTER = http://www.domain.NET
firefox + main url + CTRL SHIFT ENTER = http://www.domain.ORG

profit!

 

[drinkmorejava]

Originally posted by: Trikat
I even leave out the www.

me too.

If their IT department is too damn lazy to not forward the default DNS address properly, it's not worth my lazy ass to go visit it. www is just another subdomain suffix like wap, ftp, or pop. There's is no bloody reason on earth for website.com to not point to the same place as www.website.com unless www happens to point to an international portal. If anything, it's www.website.com that points to website.com. website.com is the default DNS entry and thus should be used likewise.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: Trikat
I even leave out the www.

the www is there for a reason. use it.

It's so much work to redirect people to www.blah.com, right?

*sigh*

theres no redirect. The admin for the domain was kind enough to put an A record for the domain. Without it you wouldn't connect, allthoug some browsers are kind enough to put a www in the DNS querey if you only type a domain.

 

[murphy55d]

I use ctrl + enter as well.

 

[Steve]

I type http://www.etc.etc/ and I even put the slash at the end. I also spell AnandTech correctly, including the letter D.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: LoKe

Originally posted by: Baked

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: Trikat
I even leave out the www.

the www is there for a reason. use it.

What's the reason? Stop making things up.

It's actually annoying, because if you're using a subdomain, you can't use it. ex: www.forums.anandtech.com wouldn't work. It's like a placeholder.

It's not a placeholder, and forums.anandtech.com is not a subdomain. forums is a hostname and www is a hostname.

 

[ImDonly1]

CTRL + Enter

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: Trikat
I even leave out the www.

the www is there for a reason. use it.

It's so much work to redirect people to www.blah.com, right?

*sigh*

theres no redirect. The admin for the domain was kind enough to put an A record for the domain. Without it you wouldn't connect, allthoug some browsers are kind enough to put a www in the DNS querey if you only type a domain.

Get a load of these guys! http://no-www.org/

 

[lokiju]

Click on bookmark labeled "ATOT" on bookmark bar in firefox.

 

[Powermoloch]

on some websites

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: Trikat
I even leave out the www.

the www is there for a reason. use it.

It's so much work to redirect people to www.blah.com, right?

*sigh*

theres no redirect. The admin for the domain was kind enough to put an A record for the domain. Without it you wouldn't connect, allthough some browsers are kind enough to put a www in the DNS query if you only type a domain.

You know what I have to say to you?
Badger badger badger badger badger badger

 

[imported_LoKe]

Originally posted by: mugs
It's not a placeholder, and forums.anandtech.com is not a subdomain. forums is a hostname and www is a hostname.

From the link you posted:

Succinctly, use of the www subdomain is redundant and time consuming to communicate. The internet, media, and society are all better off without it.

 

[Special K]

I leave off the www, but that's because IE (or maybe it's the google toolbar that's doing it, I'm not sure anymore) fills in the complete URL for me when I hit enter. I guess it's just using the address bar as a form of integrated search engine. If I type in "Anandech Forums", the address bar will automatically fill in with http://forums.anandtech.com, and then take me there.

 

[aux]

gopher://

 

[jimbob200521]

Wheres the option for anandtech.com?

I don't type http:// or, most of the time, www. before I go to a site unless it requires it.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: LoKe

Originally posted by: mugs
It's not a placeholder, and forums.anandtech.com is not a subdomain. forums is a hostname and www is a hostname.

From the link you posted:

Succinctly, use of the www subdomain is redundant and time consuming to communicate. The internet, media, and society are all better off without it.

The link I posted was a site made by retards who don't know how things work.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: mugs
Get a load of these guys! http://no-www.org/

Yeah, that still cracks me up. I wanna grab their necks and shake violently.

 

[mitaiwan82]

Originally posted by: Pastore
Ctrl + Enter for the win

x2

 

[imported_LoKe]

Originally posted by: mugs
The link I posted was a site made by retards who don't know how things work.

www is a subdomain.
forums is a subdomain.
anandtech.com is a host name.
forums.anandtech.com is a host name.

 

[Theiananator]

Originally posted by: BlancoNino

Originally posted by: chorb
i usually dont even type in the www either, saves the .4 seconds for more pr0n

that .4 seconds is sometimes the difference between being able to get your pants zipped up vs an awkward dinner with mom and dad.

Is that a preyhunter refrence?!

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: LoKe

Originally posted by: mugs
The link I posted was a site made by retards who don't know how things work.

www is a hostname.
forums is a hostname.
anandtech.com is a domain name.
forums.anandtech.com is a host name or fully qualified domain name.

Fixed.

(I know cPanel and other shared hosting control panels call it a subdomain to dumb it down)

 

[Ulfhednar]

Originally posted by: Pastore
Ctrl + Enter for the win

 

[neutralizer]

Hell no. That // is too hard to reach anyways.

 

[imported_LoKe]

Wikipedia

Popular real-life examples of subdomains include news.google.com, mail.yahoo.com, and en.wikipedia.org, in which news, mail and en are subdomains, respectively.