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- A newsgroup for the World Wide Web project is really missing
- and positioning the newsgroup beside of comp.infosystems.gopher
- and comp.infosystems.wais is ideal.
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- But I would prefer as a name for the new group:
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- comp.infosystems.world-wide-web
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- instead of
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- comp.infosystems.www.
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- WWW is much shorter and easier to write, but only insiders know what
- www is standing for. The name world-wide-web on the other side gives
- instantly an idea of the intentions of such a system. So for
- presentation and public relation purposes the term world-wide-web
- is much better.
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- Another problem is the pronounciation of www. Has anyone a suggestion?
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- Finally I would like to suggest that we come to an agreement
- on how to name the World Wide Web project in speech and writing.
- In the past I have seen the following terms:
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- World Wide Web, World-Wide-Web, WorldWideWeb, world-wide-web,
- www, WWW, W3, w3,
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- Compare this confusing collection of terms with the term "Gopher".
- "Gopher" is a single, easy pronouncable and associative term.
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- And the terms for the different browsers and other software:
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- www, WWW, viola, violaWWW, WWWViola, tkwww, TkWWW, tkWWW, midaswww,
- MidasWWW, Xmosaic, xmosaic, X Mosaic, WWWNextStep, WWWLibrary,
- HTMLGate, WWWLineMode, www_and_frame, print-www, WWWMailRobot ...
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- When I first come to info.cern.ch last year with just a vague idea
- of what World Wide Web could mean. I was very confused and it takes
- some time and experimentation until I know what I need to get started.
- The situation now is b even worse.
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- Arnold
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