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  • Current status quo: DNS names should equal web sites

    From Juancho@eternal@notreally.com to comp.infosystems.gopher on Wed Dec 21 19:03:01 2022
    From Newsgroup: comp.infosystems.gopher

    Hello all.

    Web (http) encroaching is conquering its ultimate frontier: DNS names
    should equal web sites.

    Behold: https://css-tricks.com/does-www-still-belong-in-urls/

    Even in that article discussing this topic, the fact of hosting content accessible through a protocol other than HTTP is talked about only
    in passing, and the merits of using or omitting the "www" prefix are
    discussed based on terms of convenience, branding, SEO, etc.

    The mainstream consensus seems to be that HTTP as access method in
    not questioned.

    This makes Gopher all the more interesting, and an act of resistance.
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    EOT

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  • From Marco Moock@mo01@posteo.de to comp.infosystems.gopher on Wed Dec 21 19:58:46 2022
    From Newsgroup: comp.infosystems.gopher

    Am 21.12.2022 um 19:03:01 Uhr schrieb Juancho:

    Web (http) encroaching is conquering its ultimate frontier: DNS names
    should equal web sites.

    That was the state for years. I am 21, I don't remember how it was 20
    years ago, but I remember that most webservers are also running on
    example.org and not only on www.example.org. I people are browsing the
    web, the mostly don't type www. (me included).
    I can understand this and I am am not concerned about that step,
    because it does not disturb me.

    This makes Gopher all the more interesting, and an act of resistance.

    Maybe I'll run a gopherhole in future, but at this time I have more
    important things to do.

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