[rimliu]

Being nitpicky: WWW is not the same as Internet.

[lozf]

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 :/

[type0]

Tell that to my grandma and she still wouldn't believe you.

[adventist]

Hahah. my bad.

[HlessClaudesman]

Happy Birth-day little sub-domain... Happy Birthday to you!

[ktpsns]

Being nitpicky: The www. subdomain is not required at all ;D

[isostatic]

Indeed some browsers have decided to hide it from display completely, along with other pesky things like protocol, path, query and anchor

[Jaruzel]

Google are already testing stuff in Chrome to remove the URI from the omnibox completely.

[isostatic]

One of the many reasons I use firefox (with a separate search box)