Recent letters in the Guardian about www being abbreviated to dub3/dubya, dubya, dubya/vay, vay, vay/treble-yew etc prompts me to ask why it is necessary to use the www prefix each time we search for a site. Neville Denson
When the web arrived, most companies with internet servers added their web servers at a www address. At the time, www.sitename.com often resolved to a different address than simply http://sitename.com. Today, most companies have their main public face on the web, so they naturally make www.sitename.com and http://sitename.com resolve to the same IP (Internet Protocol) address. In such cases, the www is superfluous and you don't need to use it. I therefore expect the use of www to die out.
Incidentally, Sir Tim Berners-Lee also considered Mine Of Information (moi) and The Information Mine (tim) before settling on World Wide Web (www).
