[jadengeller]

when naming the protocol part of a url, obviously you don't want to pick something so verbose, but that doesn't mean you gotta pick an acronym. could be hyper:// or smth. not saying it should be, just saying there are other ways that a more verbose concept can be shorted for certain contexts

[jorisw]

Exactly. If people HAVE to save space, an abbreviation is much clearer than an initialism.

[tomjakubowski]

Every day we stray further from gopher://