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by sc00ter 5274 days ago
My memory was that WWW was chosen to be hard to pronounce - an academic joke where the acronym had three times as many syllables as its expansion. I can't find any evidence to back that up though, only this, which makes just a fleeting reference to the difficulty of pronunciation:

http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/FAQ.html#Spelling