We must remember the origin of the "Home Page". This was the page that your old Unix shell account browser saved their bookmarks to (the two I used to use were "lynx" and I believe the other was simply "www"). This page was (by default) the index document in your account directory (whatever.com/users/~username/). That's why it was a home page, it was where your brower started (by default). Then people started linking to each others "home pages" and the word became synonymous with the top page in a website.
P > -----Original Message----- > From: Jonathan Baldwin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 12:55 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [WSG] Fixed Width Design > > > You and me both. My .mac homepage address has no www - but people > automatically ask if I've missed it off when I tell them it. > I suppose if the web were more forgiving then it wouldn't > matter if you > typed www or not. Like getting the post code wrong or missing > it off - > takes a little longer to get there but it does. > > But it's an irrelevance - time we moved away from it I think as a > hangup from the old days when people who used the web used > all sorts of > protocols in their work (ftp being the only one I can think of that I > still use, but rarely in my browser). > > It does seem (anecdotally) that people who have trouble with URLs > stumble at www. > > Pipe dreams... don't you love them? > > On 12 Dec 2003, at 00:56, Miles Tillinger wrote: > > > If I had a dollar for everytime that I had given some a > www-less URL > > verbally and they've just entered www. blah out of habit, I'd be a > > millionaire! > > ***************************************************** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > ***************************************************** > ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *****************************************************
