mesa@piefed.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoWhat Happened To WWW.?hackaday.comexternal-linkmessage-square59fedilinkarrow-up1238arrow-down111
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minus-squareZombie-Mantis@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-22 months agoHow else would you say it? “Wwwwuuuuhh dot Google dot com”? Edit: or I guess, “world wide web” would make more sense?
minus-squarecron@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 months ago“web” would have sounded nice and clear, we also didn’t name FTP the World Wide File Transfer Protocol (WWFTP).
minus-squarelurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-22 months agoIn 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 😅
minus-squareDave.@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months ago“Wuh-wuh-wuh”, using pronunciation similar to the start of “wow” or “woman”
minus-squareWiz@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months agoI’ve heard “dub-dub-dub”. But yeah, saying the abbreviation is longer than the words it’s abbreviating! 😀
How else would you say it?
“Wwwwuuuuhh dot Google dot com”?
Edit: or I guess, “world wide web” would make more sense?
“web” would have sounded nice and clear, we also didn’t name FTP the World Wide File Transfer Protocol (WWFTP).
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 😅
“Wuh-wuh-wuh”, using pronunciation similar to the start of “wow” or “woman”
I’ve heard “dub-dub-dub”. But yeah, saying the abbreviation is longer than the words it’s abbreviating! 😀