Re: lynx-dev LYNX: search order: aaa.org --> www.aaa.org.edu (???)

[pg]

In a recent note, David Woolley said:

> Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 09:10:20 +0100 (BST)
> 
> Although it probably originated before commercialisation, www represents
> the marketing approach, not the absence of it.  It is there to make
> it easy to guess the name of a company's main web server, whereas the
> original concept of the web was to give easy access to material wherever
> it was held.
> 
Using a different prefix for each service even though they are all on
the same host (ftp. www. mail.) prepares for a smooth transition to
distributing the load to multiple hosts when it becomes desirable.
The specific names don't matter.

-- gil