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- > From timbl@www3.cern.ch Fri Feb 5 15:07:31 1993
- ^^^^
-
- nice variation :-)
-
- ...
- > We write "World-Wide Web (W3)" at the start of every paper, and W3
- > from then on.
- >
- > [BTW: W3 was chosen eventually because a in many languages to
- > pronounce WWW takes longer than saying World-Wide Web and people just
- > couldn't handle it. So we suggest the pronounciation "double you
- > three". (We ruled out W cubed because though it is more logical you
- > can't superscript in mail. We ruled out V6 because its to cute. We
- > ruled out InfoMesh and then MIT used it. We have only found one
- > company called WWW --- a technical documentation company in Freiburg
- > who have a "WWW explain" product. Their advertisement doesn't say
- > what WWW stands for there. (Maybe you could phone them on 0761/40 10
- > 221 and find out, Arnold!)
-
- I just phoned them.
-
- WWW stands for: "Wirtschaftswerbung Woerlen". "Wirtschaftswerbung" means
- "Business to Business Communication" and Mr. Woerlen is the big boss
- of WWW.
-
- "WWW Explain" is the name of a subsidiary of WWW which is offering
- technical documentation services.
-
- They told me about the same problems with pronounciation of WWW in
- different languages.
-
- And they gave me a hint, that there is a service available which looks
- for and verifies names for other companies. A name shall cost about
- 70000 Deutsche Mark or 44000 US $.
-
- Arnold
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