www.

[nik0tine]

Does anybody actually type in "www." when typing something into the address bar? I sure as hell don't. Is there even a point to it?

[Nominus Experse]

I still continue to do so, though it's largely out of habit than actual neccessity.

[The Devil Man]

Good question!

I think the answer is generally no. I rarely bother nowadays. It used to be a habit to do it for every website, but unless I got them book-marked, I don't type it in at all. I don't think any website requires you to do so anymore (At least, with the browser I use, Firefox, i don't need to).

[Tasura]

If Ive been tehre before/recently I just use the thing in the adress bar where you type a letter and it gives you a list of sites youve been to that start with that, otherwise I may or maynot, depends on how long the URL is =P

[fantasyjunkie]

I do it out of habit

[feona17]

No, obviously because it's not needed to get to wherever you're going. Fast-paced world I tell ya.

[Meat Puppet]

I also do it out of habit. I'm not bothered by it.

[Faris]

Yeah, I don't type in "www." I don't even type in the address bar. I have every site I visit bookmarked and in a specific order.

[eestlinc]

i do.

[Del Murder]

You don't need to?

[Pant Leg Eater from the Bad World]

I do. It bugs me to have go to a website and not type it out all proper like.

[Rase]

I agree with the above post. I need to do it that way or it just feels odd.

[Del Snizz]

Clearly, anyone who doesn't is a lazy ne'er-do-well who likes nothing more than contributing to the downfall of civilization.

[Reles]

On my old computer you HAD to, or it didn't know what the hell you were talking about. Most of the stuff I need to access is on the firefox thingie below the address bar though, so need for typing anything at all.

[Psydekick]

i only use the internet for forums.eyesonff.com so i dont need to put www.

[Alive-Cat]

I have bookmarked anything that I go to, often.
I usually find other sites by using google, and because I usually leave an EoFF window open, I open a new window to search google, and the Firefox start is google.
Therefore, I barely ever use the address bar.

[NorthernChaosGod]

If Ive been tehre before/recently I just use the thing in the adress bar where you type a letter and it gives you a list of sites youve been to that start with that, otherwise I may or maynot, depends on how long the URL is =P

[eestlinc]

You don't need to?
it depends on the site, I believe.

[nik0tine]

You don't need to?
it depends on the site, I believe.
Does it really? I've never actually encountered a site that made me do it.

[No.78]

I do it, it just doesn't feel right otherwise...

[Del Snizz]

You don't need to?
it depends on the site, I believe.
Does it really? I've never actually encountered a site that made me do it.

That's simply because most sites these days are weak and care nothing for the public virtue.

[Sefie1999AD]

I type the www. out of habit, unless the page URL doesn't have www. in the beginning (many pages in my university's network don't have a www. in their address). I also use the address/navigation bar a lot. When I type the first few letters of the address, it gives me the list of addresses I've visited before.


i only use the internet for forums.eyesonff.com so i dont need to put www.

This is again out of habit, but when I go to EoFF forums, if they aren't bookmarked (e.g. when I'm using other computers), I type the old address www.eyesonff.com/forums , which gets me redirected to the forum main page.

[Breine]

Ehm, I do... But it's probably just an old habit - plus I think there are actually some sites that you can't visit without typing the www's?

[Old Manus]

But the internet doesn't work without www!

[Bart's Friend Milhouse]

someone stole my w key

[Xaven]

Yes. Actually, I always ritually type:

"http://www.*site name :D*.com/"

[Rusty]

Most of the time I still do.

[Quindiana Jones]

How spiffingly random.

I don't. I'm too lazy. All the websites I usually go to are on the bar thing. Kind of like bookmarking, but I'm using firefox, so they're right there and all I do is click. *click*

[Zeldy]

I used to, until my friend showed me you didn't have to.
I type it sometimes by habit.

[Odaisé Gaelach]

Sometimes I do.

Sometimes I even put in the http:// prefix too. :excited:

[Agent Proto]

I usually type www. The question should be, "Does anyone type http://?" Now that's what I usually skip when typing out an address.

[Rye]

I don't remember the last time I ever typed www. :p

[Madonna]

Yes. Actually, I always ritually type:

"http://www.*site name :D*.com/"Does the :D at the end get you a lot of 404's?

I type out the w's seeing as a few of the sites I deal with have subdomains, so I type those out; so the w's just make sense to me.

[Tifa's Real Lover(really]

rarely, i jus go *puts in site name* then i hit the Ctrl and enter and it does it for me

[Denmark]

all the time. every single time when i don't have my stuff bookmarked.

[Hambone]

nope.

[Fuego]

some addresses for some reason don't work for me unless i type the "www." so usualy not but if it doesn't work then yes i do. :D

[rubah]

www is sometimes necessary, depending on whether the site owner has enabled a little option to make it so.

Generally I just type something that will get me close enough, and rely on firefox's inbuilt google search to bring up something appropriate. That, or type the first few letters and let drop down autocomplete finish the job for me.

[Tavrobel]

Out of habit, unless it's been bookmarked.

[Fred]

A lot of university websites require the "www." and I would imagine government sites do as well.

My 20 year-old roommate asked me why I typed the "http://" once while he was in my room. He told me he had never noticed it before and had certainly never typed it.

O_o

To answer the question though, I typed www. every time and http:// every time.

[DanteV9]

I ignore not typing "www" only on special occasion. Why I type "www"? Dunno.

[YunaGirl05]

no i don't i usually just type i nwhat i want in the search engine even though its not hte fastest way.

[bipper]

You don't need to?
it depends on the site, I believe.
Does it really? I've never actually encountered a site that made me do it.

That's simply because most sites these days are weak and care nothing for the public virtue.

Depends on how the web server is set up. Most cool site use apache, which by default hadles root hits and throws a user into the www directory with out any need not to. Sites that do not, irk me. Unless of course they do something else with root dir.

Apache did have a huge control over the ammount of webservers, until micro$cuk horribly cheated and payed GoDaddy to park all its parked domains on an IIS box, boosting microsofts IIS web presence dramatically. Feel the HATE! (Parked domain being one that is bought, and just not in use.)

I think IIS by default does not approve of such lazyness as forgetting the leading www. reference; though I have not used it it _years_ so I am prolly wrong by now. I should hope so.


Bipper

[KentaRawr!]

Indeed I do! And it's purely out of habbit. I remember when my sister was trying to impress me with a "magic trick". She said she could get a website to load without typing WWW. I didn't believe her. When I saw her do it, I was in total awe! O_O

[Sunny Day Suicide]

It's stupid to do so.

[Moon Rabbits]

Yes. Force of habit.

[Pant Leg Eater from the Bad World]

Yes. Actually, I always ritually type:

"http://www.*site name :D*.com/"

Yes. I have to have the http:// in there too. It has to be perfection.

[Sylvie]

Everytime I try to go to a website, I type "ww" and IT NEVER COMES UP. :(

[boys from the dwarf]

i dont do it either. i think www. may be neccasary for some websites but im not sure. i dont understand why people did it in the first place. its saves time if you dont do it.

[Xander]

Never any more but some sites actually don't configure their site to work without www (Like bipper explained I think) so then I'm like grr. On our server at work when we set up sites we have to add two headers, one with www, and one without, if you don't it won't work without. Doh. When I do try and type www I end up typing ww or wwww. x_x

[MageLuingil]

I do most of the time, just out of habit.




You don't need to?
it depends on the site, I believe.
Does it really? I've never actually encountered a site that made me do it.

There's some site I go to quite often that requires it ... I can't remember which one though :p

[Ryth]

I tend to type it out, not because I find it needed, just out of habit.

[Necronopticous]

I hope out the whole thing, every time. I can type "http://www." in a fraction of a second.

[McLovin']

No. I got used to http:// though for some reason.

[Quindiana Jones]

I hope out the whole thing, every time. I can type "http://www." in a fraction of a second.

Nerd :D

Having said that, I can also type incredibly fast. I don't get bullied...I don't get bullied...I don't...I don't....

[Elite Lord Sigma]

I do it out of familiarity rather than necessity.

[Dignified Pauper]

i always type it

[Zeromus_X]

Nah. :cat:

[kikimm]

I used to always do it until a few months ago, when I discovered that it could be done without. So yeah, I'm slowly getting the www out of my system. I have relapses often, though, and they aggravate me more than they should. It's silly.

[The Summoner of Leviathan]

Most sites I go to are bookmarked, so I do not need to type anything. But when I do, I usually do not bother in doing so. Though I noticed when I tried to use IE for my university website, I had to type in: "http://www." which I do not have to do in Firefox.

[Yamaneko]

Typing out http:// is useless since it's the default internet protocol that almost all websites are on. Denoting www is mostly useless since by default Apache redirects www requests to the public_html folder.

[Markus. D]

sometimes its required.

;)

[Dreddz]

No, unless I want to go to

www.com