[water-data-dude]

Oooooh! I saw “I’ll have to teal deer it” and thought it must be some strange idiom. Had to go to Urban Dictionary to find out “teal dear = tl;dr”, and now I feel as dim as a garter snake that’s evolved resistance to large amounts of tetrodotoxin.

[hn_acc1]

I didn't get it either, but now I'm just sad that it's come to this, where we have to replace 5 characters with 9 just to seem "cool". Sure, it's 2 syllables instead of 4, but then we REALLY should have avoided using www as the prefix for the web. It's not like we talk about surfing "the WWW" - and even saying the 3 letters is WAY longer than saying "World Wide Web".

It's great in german - 3 syllables for 3 letters, but english/french, it's NINE syllables for 3 letters. I always thought it should have been web.domain.org.

[account42]

> It's great in german - 3 syllables for 3 letters, but english/french, it's NINE syllables for 3 letters.

Kind of absurd to use multiple syllables for a single letter if you think about it.

> I always thought it should have been web.domain.org.

It should have just been "domain.org" - the web part is already specified in the protocol. And if you are concerned about domains only having a single IP that could have been (and for many protocols has been) solved with SRV records.

[dole]

Thanks to YOU for the teal dear.

[SwtCyber]

That just means you're adapting to survive the modern web

[tanseydavid]

I was thinking it must be a play on "steel-man" but nope.

Thanks for the taking the time to find out for the rest of us.