{"id":9497,"date":"2005-09-25T23:27:18","date_gmt":"2005-09-25T20:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/09\/25\/no-more-www\/"},"modified":"2005-10-02T21:45:46","modified_gmt":"2005-10-02T18:45:46","slug":"no-more-www","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/09\/25\/no-more-www\/","title":{"rendered":"No more WWW"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>I am trying to stop using the &#8220;www.&#8221; part when typing in URLs.  The web has gone a long way and most of the websites don&#8217;t need to start with WWW.  Just the domain is fine.<\/p>\n<p>But I have been typing &#8220;www.&#8221; into the address bar for so long that I don&#8217;t do it on purpose anymore.  My fingers just remember it and use it every time I switch to address bar.  I type it even faster than I can realize that I&#8217;m typing it.  I got better at realizing in the last few days though.  Now I catch myself when I&#8217;m done only with a couple of first &#8220;w&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It becomes really annoying.  Imagine your hands doing something you&#8217;ve forbidden them to do.  Won&#8217;t that freak you out?<\/p>\n<p>When I will finally get rid of the &#8220;www.&#8221; in my address bar, I&#8217;ll start to get rid of &#8220;http:\/\/&#8221;.   I know that protocol is much more useful than those stupid domain parts, but when browsing the web, HTTP is the default protocol and even if you don&#8217;t specify it, the browser knows ho to handle that.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>I am trying to stop using the &#8220;www.&#8221; part when typing in URLs. The web has gone a long way and most of the websites don&#8217;t need to start with WWW. Just the domain is fine. 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