It feels wrong
It feels wrong
It feels wrong
(I understand the joke, please don't explain it)
Dreifaches Doppel-Du
HTTP Error 400
My favorite joke
That's why I say "dub dub dub" it confuses people and I have to explain that it's www which is short for world wide web but I saved a little bit of time by saying dub dub dub......wait a minute......
honestly I think w should be renamed "dub". stupid long-ass name for a single letter
Yeah dub would bring it back in line with all the other letters, which are single syllable. Get your shit together, W.
It saves a lot of time once you have established it. You invest time when establishing it and get a fraction of it back once a mentionable amount of people know it
Three-dubs
Pro wrestling fans of ECW support your cause.
I read that is dumb dumb dumb
.....Double You Bee
not in my language
At least we have Japanese beat.
ダブルユー ダブルユー ダブルユー or daburuyu daburuyu daburuyu
12 syllables vs 9 haha
Spanish would be doble ve doble ve doble ve
In double checking my work, it looks like the alphabet got reduced and the name of w changed.
Now it's doble uve doble uve doble uve
If serious, it's because double-you, double-you, double-you (6 syllables) vs world-wide-web (3 syllables). A syllable sort of represents the amount of time it takes to say something.
So it takes twice as long to say www.
If not serious, yes, it's because your German. But then again, German humor isn't really that.
In Dutch www is faster. Never understood why one would give a letter a name that consists of 2 parts.
I don't get why w is called double u when it's clearly a double v
It's a long story. In short: In Latin script u and v were the same letter "u" but had two pronunciations depending on whether it was being used as a vowel or consonant. But when adapting the alphabet to Germanic languages (including Old English) the same two sounds were from two different letters, so they put two "u"s together to make double u: vv.
The full story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg2j7mZ9-2Y
In some languages (Spanish, for example) it's double v.
U and V used to be the same letter
how do you pronounce Y ?
In Flanders (at least where I'm at) we usually say I grec, but when doing math or reciting the alphabet, we say IJ.
In Swedish I pronounce y as y. It has its own sound and doesn't sound like another letter, so it can't be written as a combination of other letters.
Üpsilon
In Irish we say "wuh". And "punk" for dot.
Wuh wuh wuh punk lemmy punk world
I like the Spanish radio commercials like you’ll hear in California:
[…] PUNTO COM!!!
(website dot com and in a booming voice)
in Germany we say weh and punkt
veh written with english pronunciation in mind
Back in the day at work we used 'dub-dub-dub' for www. (around 2000)
Hahahaha, love it!
i've often heard it called dubdubdub
By breakfast crews on crappy radio stations.
Possibly
wee wee wee
All the way home
Weeeee3
In Dutch it’s whey-whey-whey.
I still remember when companies started mentioning their websites in commercials.
It was one big torrent of whey-whey-wheys.
“Dub dub dub”.
It has to be 30 years that I've been using this. I might have said the full term a couple times at the start but that quickly ended.
If you skip the "b", you can speed it up even more with "dudududu" to include the dot.
Trip dub
Not in Sweden. Veveve.
I love it and will marry it.
Dub Dub Dub.
But also, "the web." "Online."
"hexa-u"
I do not pronounce that part of a URL. Who still does that? Why would you need to do that?
Because www.example.com
and example.com
, while the same website nearly all of the time, are technically different and could point to different places.
Some people don't know how to properly DNS, and IIRC some smaller DNS services don't support CNAMEing the root.
Because it's an artifact from a time when having a website for a business was entirely optional, and novel. This wasn't happening everywhere.
Here in france, everyone says "3w". Pronouncing it entirely sounds like "Double V, double V, double V" so "3w" sounds like "Trois double V", which funnily enough, is still longer than world wide web!
I always hear "triple double-V" in Quebec French.
But in French "W" is often abbreviated to "V". Like BMW --> Beh Ehm Veh (often shortened even further to "Beh Ehm").
So WWW would be "veh veh veh".
In any case "World Wide Web" is quite the mouthful for the average French speaker.
Sure, but you sound like an absolute psycho saying "world wide web.MidgetPorn.edu"
I'd like to know what scholarships are available for that.
Check them out at world wide web.ClownPenis.org
Just perform a constant hum: "vvvvvv"
Now I want to listen to come chiptunes.
Just pronounce it “wuhwuhwuh”
Dubdubdub
We could fix this by renaming it the Worbledy Widewibble Webbledywoowoo.
Watching old commercials is hilarious. "If YOU would like to see our locations on the world-wide-web, visit our website on your web browser by typing in w, w, w, dot, appliance, dash, direct, dot, com!"
My favorite was "The Information Superhighway."
It sounds too complicated for me. Probably intended for more advanced users.
well i sure hate that last picture
I generally say “werwerwer”.
But you don't type world wide web. You type www.
Do you really type www?
I usually even type "https://". Even when I'm just using a browser and not writing code.
I think it's probably the case that these days the modern browsers will automatically give you https without having to type it out (and maybe only give you the http site if the https url doesn't work?)
But there was definitely a time when typing wikipedia.org
into an address bar would give you an http://
address.
A lot of sites even then would immediately redirect you to an https version, but if you put a whole-ass path in, the request for that path would go over the internet tubes in plaintext before the the redirect came back. Which is roughly no better in many cases than if the site doesn't even redirect you to an https version.
No one types www
It's https//:
Link doesn't work for some reason..
wawawa
"triple dub"
Trip dubs.
Tr’ubs
6U
Six.
when visiting my dutch family I noticed how faster "vay vay vay" is, so I started thinking vévévé in french instead of "double v" x3 (btw this is a double u : uu) I've said it out loud a few times by accident and people don't question it. I think we all agree it's a bit silly to pronounce.
...
I have an intense and fascinating life.
we pronounce it va ya yay
For my own edification, you pronounce vévévé as vah-yah-yay?
ViViVi
...or EmacsEmacEmacs, if that's your thing.
Call it WoWaWe
That's why it's pronounced dub-dub-dub.
I don't trust websites that still start with www.
Why not? (Serious question, I'm a DNS engineer so this is super relevant to me)
Because it's super old fashioned. I'd expect that most of the time you host a website, you want your default domain to be the website, because that's almost exclusively the one people might have to type in or read.
You can use content-type
, accept
, and/or user-agent
headers to route to the appropriate non-html resources and APIs, or if you really need, those are the resources hidden behind client-specific or purpose-specific subdomains.
If they're not making their default domain their website, then I don't believe they take their website seriously.
Say "dubdubdub" or "dubbadubdub". "winwinwin" would also be acceptable.
Still twice as long to say as word wide web!
true story. Just as many syllables as 1 W.
Anyone else not realize the swirls were part of a watermark and just think that was supposed to be part of his haircut?
When is it necessary to say www?
When they set the site up poopy
Usually happens in the reverse though, so it’s necessary to say it when you need to verbally communicate:
“Hey your site works when I visit example.com
but www.example.com
never loads”
Just now!
To play devil's advocate, yes, "w" is technically three syllables in English, but they're easy enough to blur together. Meanwhile, the actual "w" sound is comparatively labor intensive, and "-orld" even more so. We're in purple burglar alarm world.
"doub-ya"
Double-you, double-you, double-you.
Double U, double double U, full stop, butterfield diet, full stop, Cee Oh Em.
Dubya dubya dubya is slightly faster
Even faster to say Net
Visit us at double you double you double you double you double you dot!
HTTP colon backslash backslash
(I know they're not backslashes.)
double you double you double you double you double you dot
"wwww."?
wwwww.
In spanish we use, "three W" as WWW xD
I think we should sit down and take the shortest syllable version of each word/expression from each language and combine them all into one fast language.
Tridub
Anyone else say
"DUBBA U DUBBA U DUBBA U"
ooga ooga ooga
Kids these days don't remember President Dubya I guess 😔
Wuh wuh wuh
U to the sixth power. Damnit not shorter.
Six U's. There.
3 W
Trick is to go southern with it. Merge the last two vowel sounds into almost-one. Dub-ee-eh
Dub is short for win.
I'm gonna start using worldwideweb as my default subdomain now.
I'm gonna start saying "wild wild west"
I don’t even think we say it anymore in the US. Just whatever.com
I think this is why a lot of sites stopped using it!