Take care. This article is likely outdated.
www
- www stands for World Wide Web and is a relict from the early internet days
- www. is hard to spell in english (double you, double you, double you, double you, dot)
- www. is just an optional subdomain
- A domain without www is called apex-, naked- or bare-domain
- Print designers like the look – print ads mostly include the www. prefix
- Young people tend to skip www. when typing in a domain in the address bar of the browser
- Old people always type www. before they type the actual domain name
- Some web masters forget to set up this subdomain > 404
- www. is coming back with modern cloud hosting (CNAME records, CDNs …)