Every website used to be like “www.example.com”. Now I rarely encounter this “www.”. Why did it even exist and where has it gone? I also used to run into websites with legitimate domains, but “ww1.” instead of “www.”, these were probably phishing sites, but how did this actually work on top of legitimate domains?
It’s still there, you just don’t need it since it’s usually a given. Like how you didn’t need to actually type out “http://” back in the day.
I am upset only by “back in the day.”.
THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO…
In the 1900s
aka, last decade.
That’s not true. It’s usually not there, and unlike “http(s)://”, the browser doesn’t assume it for you. www.example.com and example.com can be different websites, so a browser cannot assume the “www”.
In fact try going to your own instance: www.pawb.social
It doesn’t work with “www”.
This is wrong, it’s not there anymore, it used to be, but now lots of pages don’t even redirect it, they just simply don’t work.