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WWW? We don’t need no stinkin Ws

Sysadmins, please: the WWW prefix on URLs is a luxury, not a necessity. Yeah, it makes the URL a little more symmetrical; yeah, it helps your average technophobe identify an URL on a billboard without fuss (try throwing http://domain.com out there and see how far it gets you with the local geriatric community); but I’ll be damned if you’ll force me to use it.

Why the hell does apple.com.au contain no data? Does it really need to be www.apple.com.au? And you, bankwest.com.au, why can’t you be found? I just wanna wire some money to my roommate, do you really need those Ws to function?