mesa@piefed.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoWhat Happened To WWW.?hackaday.comexternal-linkmessage-square59fedilinkarrow-up1238arrow-down110
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minus-squareZombie-Mantis@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-24 days agoHow else would you say it? “Wwwwuuuuhh dot Google dot com”? Edit: or I guess, “world wide web” would make more sense?
minus-squarelurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-24 days 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-squarecron@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·4 days ago“web” would have sounded nice and clear, we also didn’t name FTP the World Wide File Transfer Protocol (WWFTP).
minus-squareWiz@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·4 days agoI’ve heard “dub-dub-dub”. But yeah, saying the abbreviation is longer than the words it’s abbreviating! 😀
minus-squareDave.@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·4 days ago“Wuh-wuh-wuh”, using pronunciation similar to the start of “wow” or “woman”
How else would you say it?
“Wwwwuuuuhh dot Google dot com”?
Edit: or I guess, “world wide web” would make more sense?
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 😅
“web” would have sounded nice and clear, we also didn’t name FTP the World Wide File Transfer Protocol (WWFTP).
I’ve heard “dub-dub-dub”. But yeah, saying the abbreviation is longer than the words it’s abbreviating! 😀
“Wuh-wuh-wuh”, using pronunciation similar to the start of “wow” or “woman”