Why did we need "www" for URLs and why don't we need it now?

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Reddit Landing Page

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Reddit

Reddit gives you the best of the internet in one place. Get a constantly updating feed of breaking news, fun stories, pics, memes, and videos just for you.

$ http head https://reddit.com HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Accept-Ranges: bytes Cache-Control: private, max-age=3600 Connection: close Content-Length: 0 Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2023 14:32:53 GMT Location: https://www.reddit.com/.

#Social Networks #Social Network #Forums 3294 social mentions
eBay Landing Page
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eBay

Buy and sell electronics, cars, fashion apparel, collectibles, sporting goods, digital cameras, baby items, coupons, and everything else on eBay, the world's online marketplace
Pricing:
- Freemium
What am I wrong about? They were marketing ebay.com and redirecting to www.

#eCommerce #eCommerce Platform #Online Marketplace 379 social mentions
Domain.com Landing Page

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Domain.com

Find and purchase your next website domain name and hosting without breaking the bank. Seamlessly establish your online identify today.

#Web Hosting #Domain Name Registrar #Hosting 770 social mentions
Company.com Landing Page

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Company.com

Company.com is an all-in-one business management and software solution providing a platform that allows your business to evolve at the pace it needs continuously.

Just to add some more context to the other great answers here: In the old days, before the Cloud blurred everything, companies used physical servers connected by wires to provide services like email, ftp access, web sites, and so on. A company would have a domain name for their entire organization. They would use subdomains to be able to route services to particular servers (or groups of servers acting as though they were a single server/service). 'mail.company.com' would be configured in DNS to point to the IP address of the server that would handle email. 'www.company.com' would have the IP address of the web server. A 'default' IP address could be configured for the domain name (company.com).

#Business & Commerce #Online Services #Accounting 139 social mentions
Example.com Landing Page

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Example.com

This domain is for use in illustrative examples in documents. You may use this domain in literature without prior coordination or asking for permission.

Never thought about this and always used example.com in tests, including emails. Always seemed fine and the server rejections (I forgot the server code response code) seemed fine. I wonder if example.org returns the same.

#Software Development #Software Development Tools #Web Development Tools 2401 social mentions
Google Landing Page

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Google

Google Search, also referred to as Google Web Search or simply Google, is a web search engine developed by Google. It is the most used search engine on the World Wide Web

#Search Engine #Internet Search #Web Search 3692 social mentions
Facebook Landing Page

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Facebook

Connect with friends, family and other people you know. Share photos and videos, send messages and get updates.

Try it for yourself.... ``` $ curl -I https://facebook.com HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Location: https://www.facebook.com/.

#Social Networks #Social Network #Decentralized Social Network 450 social mentions
Cisco Landing Page

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Cisco

Cisco is the worldwide leader in IT, networking, and cybersecurity solutions. We help companies of all sizes transform how people connect, communicate, and collaborate.

#Analytics #Group Chat & Notifications #Cyber Security 40 social mentions