What is the purpose of the WWW subdomain?
Problem
What's the point of having ? Isn't it just useless extra text? Since everyone is used to it, looks more well-balanced than , but why did it start in the first place? One thing I noticed, is that has the IP of , in the UK, while has the IP of , in the US. Could anyone explain a bit on that? Edit: Is supposed to be a different machine than ? Does it have to be?
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Fix for: What is the purpose of the WWW subdomain?
Before the World Wide Web, there was still an Internet, and it was used for a variety of things: telnet, email, gopher, FTP, etc. At that time, it was traditional to assign domain name aliases to servers for common functions. So, smtp.example.com would be example.com's outbound email SMTP server, ftp.example.com would be example.com's FTP server, etc. When the Web came along (early 1990's), it was just yet another application / protocol — it wasn't necessarily envisioned at that time that it wo…
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