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I am not a beginner. Yet what is bothering me is that why some websites are prefixed by "www" and some are not. Does the organisation WWW play any role here?
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The prefix depends mostly on the location of the site. For some more secure sites, like a university website, it would be ww2 as opposed to www. Also, some sites have subdomains. For instance, my website is http://www.jwmagic.com but for some special things I could have http://forms.jwmagic.com Ebay also uses http://somethingelse.ebay.com and replace the "somethingelse" with whatever it actually is. Does this make any sense?
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John W. Watson
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I can answer almost any question regarding the internet on a beginning to intermediate level. I`m good at searching, downloading, Internet Explorer, online buying and selling, chatting, Ebaying, downloading music from the internet, and just about anthing else on that level. I cannot answer questions about networking, uploading, Macs, AOL, or Netscape. If I don`t have the answer to your question, I will find it. :-)
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I've been using the internet ever since it started to become popular. My father is a computer technologist who taught me very well. Plus several years of experience learning by doing.
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