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by adventist 2661 days ago
Happy Birthday Internet!
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rimliu 2661 days ago
Being nitpicky: WWW is not the same as Internet.
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lozf 2661 days ago
Yes, precisely... rather disappointing that HN users -- the very people you'd expect to know the difference between one protocol and "a set of them" would make this mistake - what hope is there for Joe Public :/
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type0 2661 days ago
Tell that to my grandma and she still wouldn't believe you.
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adventist 2660 days ago
Hahah. my bad.
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HlessClaudesman 2661 days ago
Happy Birth-day little sub-domain... Happy Birthday to you!
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ktpsns 2661 days ago
Being nitpicky: The www. subdomain is not required at all ;D
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isostatic 2661 days ago
Indeed some browsers have decided to hide it from display completely, along with other pesky things like protocol, path, query and anchor
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Jaruzel 2661 days ago
Google are already testing stuff in Chrome to remove the URI from the omnibox completely.
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isostatic 2661 days ago
One of the many reasons I use firefox (with a separate search box)
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JdeBP 2661 days ago
Is it the 29th of October already? I could have sworn that it was March only yesterday. (-:
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