Every website used to be like “www.example.com”. Now I rarely encounter this “www.”. Why did it even exist and where has it gone? I also used to run into websites with legitimate domains, but “ww1.” instead of “www.”, these were probably phishing sites, but how did this actually work on top of legitimate domains?

  • SatyrSack@quokk.auEnglish
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    2 days ago

    [edit] hah; even Lemmy is munging my URLs to remove the bits it deems unnecessary.

    Use backticks to tell us exactly without Lemmy attempting to correct you or parse anything

    `https://www.example.com/`

    becomes

    https://www.example.com/