I just read an article the other day about the significance of the "www" subdomain in urls and I found it in the wild soon after. I couldn't figure out why "https://somesite.com" was giving an error but if I searched in a search engine for it, it came up just fine when I clicked. I forgot the www! what's the word for that, when you read or watch something then suddenly notice it happening as if by magic?

7 months ago

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sometimes that's called the baader-meinhof effect ! · 7 months ago

@dsilverz for some websites, it's actually a subdomain. "www.somesite.net" is not the same as "mail.somesite.net" or whatever. Back in the early days, lots of orgs had networks that folks used over the internet before the Web so they just added another subdomain. Then it became convention and sites that only existed as websites used it to conform and nowadays it's not really common for a place to have anything more than the public-facing website but browsers still accomodate the convention. We don't often type it in anymore but every once in a while you run into what I did lol · 7 months ago