“Dub dub dub”.
If you skip the “b”, you can speed it up even more with “dudududu” to include the dot.
It has to be 30 years that I’ve been using this. I might have said the full term a couple times at the start but that quickly ended.
i’ve often heard it called dubdubdub
By breakfast crews on crappy radio stations.
Here in france, everyone says “3w”. Pronouncing it entirely sounds like “Double V, double V, double V” so “3w” sounds like “Trois double V”, which funnily enough, is still longer than world wide web!
But in French “W” is often abbreviated to “V”. Like BMW --> Beh Ehm Veh (often shortened even further to “Beh Ehm”).
So WWW would be “veh veh veh”.
In any case “World Wide Web” is quite the mouthful for the average French speaker.
BMW is a German company. Are you sure that’s not just people saying it in German?
I generally say “werwerwer”.
Double-you, double-you, double-you.
Double U, double double U, full stop, butterfield diet, full stop, Cee Oh Em.
In Dutch it’s whey-whey-whey.
I still remember when companies started mentioning their websites in commercials.
It was one big torrent of whey-whey-wheys.In Italian it’s “vuvuvu”, ez
that’s my 6th favourite thing about Italy
Same in Russian - it’s something like “wehwehweh”
Close to whe in when.
Same in German.
Well, In German it’s also grammatically correct
I speak Dutch but (we, in this region) don’t pronounce the y sound at the end.
So the solution is very simple: everyone should become dutch
If serious, it’s because double-you, double-you, double-you (6 syllables) vs world-wide-web (3 syllables). A syllable sort of represents the amount of time it takes to say something.
So it takes twice as long to say www.
If not serious, yes, it’s because your German. But then again, German humor isn’t really that.
you’re*
Look man English isn’t a language it’s a mistake
Per other poster, dou-ble-you (I didn’t catch that myself)
Haha woah I had to sound it out
Always gotta clap the syllables!
It’s worse! 9 syllables!
I wasn’t serious, but thanks for the explanation!
I’m sure it’s helpful for someoneIt was a poor explanation. Double you has 3 syllables so it has nine all up vs 3. So it takes 3 times as long. I don’t think it was about the time but the ease of saying it. World Wide Web is a bit annoying to say
(Happy cake day! )
Yes it is, but why not just say the sound of the letter?
Way-way-way / wee-wee-wee / wuh-wuh-wuh ?
Even the dub-dub-dub someone else suggested would work.
No wonder everyone dropped the
www.from their urls ¯\_(ツ)_/¯I’ve no better answer than “It just isn’t done.” Native English speakers at the very least would not interpret that as indicating the letter, they would interpret it as someone stuttering or what they’re trying to say is stuck on the tip of their tongue.
Hang on. Don’t Germans say it “doobla-veh?”
Nope, that would be the French 🥖
That’s why I say “dub dub dub” it confuses people and I have to explain that it’s www which is short for world wide web but I saved a little bit of time by saying dub dub dub…wait a minute…
Pro wrestling fans of ECW support your cause.
I read that is dumb dumb dumb
It saves a lot of time once you have established it. You invest time when establishing it and get a fraction of it back once a mentionable amount of people know it
Dubya dubya dubya
honestly I think w should be renamed “dub”. stupid long-ass name for a single letter
Yeah dub would bring it back in line with all the other letters, which are single syllable. Get your shit together, W.
Three-dubs
“triple dub”
Trip dubs.
6U
wee wee wee
All the way home
We could fix this by renaming it the Worbledy Widewibble Webbledywoowoo.
When is it necessary to say www?
When they set the site up poopy
Usually happens in the reverse though, so it’s necessary to say it when you need to verbally communicate:
“Hey your site works when I visit
example.combutwww.example.comnever loads”Just now!
I think this is why a lot of sites stopped using it!
But you don’t type world wide web. You type www.
Do you really type www?
No one types www
It’s https//:
I usually even type “https://”. Even when I’m just using a browser and not writing code.
I think it’s probably the case that these days the modern browsers will automatically give you https without having to type it out (and maybe only give you the http site if the https url doesn’t work?)
But there was definitely a time when typing
wikipedia.orginto an address bar would give you anhttp://address.A lot of sites even then would immediately redirect you to an https version, but if you put a whole-ass path in, the request for that path would go over the internet tubes in plaintext before the the redirect came back. Which is roughly no better in many cases than if the site doesn’t even redirect you to an https version.
That’s what “https Everywhere” was for, although yeah not really needed anymore.
Firefox has a setting to force https
Link doesn’t work for some reason…
U to the sixth power. Damnit not shorter.
Six U’s. There.
