Wwwhy?

Published on September 22, 2006 by Marcus Tettmar in General

One of my pet peeves is when I hear newsreaders and TV presenters reading out website addresses and pronouncing the www prefix. Websites actually don’t need the www prefix these days. Reading out www is awkward, and wastes oxygen. Newsreaders don’t need to stumble and stammer over that cumbersome triplet of letters. E.g. if you want to tell people where to find Macro Scheduler just tell them macroscheduler.com. Easy to say and easy to remember.

So my second pet peeve is when I find a website that insists on the www prefix. Luckily they are rare. There’s really no reason why a website should insist on the www prefix at all. So if you own a website, make sure people can view your site without having to type in the www.

That’s all for now. Have a great weekend! 🙂