Can you imagine a website without the common hypertext www? “ww38.abc.com” instead of “www.abc.com”, Is it possible? Pretty stunned, right? What you heard right now is one hundred percent true. It is possible to have ‘ww38’ as a hypertext before the domain address of a website, instead of ‘www’. Today I am here to share you all the information that I have about this topic. Come along with me and we will have a deep research into the hypertext ‘ww38’ which can even break down the common rule of using hypertext.
Why we use www as prefix to every domain address?
As we all know about the hypertext ‘www’ which we use before every website. You may know the reason for providing this particular hypertext before every website and you might also even familiar with the full form of ‘www’. But for those who are unfamiliar with the term ‘www’, let me brief it before you: www is an abbreviation of ‘World Wide Web’, it is also known as ‘the Web’ in common. www is a hypertext used for interlinking hypertext documents and to access it through the internet. This method of hyperlinking documents of useful information to access via internet, was earlier proposed by Robert Cailliau in 1990. Today almost all the domain names use www as a prefix to their domain address. This act by the domains is due to the naming practice of internet hosts that these sites have been following for a long time. But we rarely type www as prefix to the sites, when we type the name of the website in the address bar, this is because today almost all the browser will capture the given address by adding the prefix ‘www’ automatically.
Sites with ‘ww38’ instead of ‘www’.
Did you now got the reason why we use www as a hypertext and prefix to many of the domain address? Now let us move into the new concept of ww38, shall we?
Very recently I found out that there can be domain names or addresses with ‘ww38’ as their prefixes. Few days back I was surfing my browser as regular, but in between my process, I was accidently I was redirected to a site with ww38 as its prefix. The site was ww38.kates-part.com, I was very much confused and even scared, as it would be any virus or any other type of malwares or even some sort of scam. I shutdown my browser as soon as I saw that hypertext and I was surprised to know it was not at a malware or any type of virus and it is really an internet site with prefix ‘ww38’. I was looking all over the internet for the info about this kind of prefix, and finally I came to know that there are many websites over the internet which accept ww38 as prefix.
What does ww38 means?
Providing ‘ww38’ as prefix to many of the sites over the internet means that, you can access or you are accessing ‘ww38’ named machine(server) from the main domain. ww38 or any similar other prefixes are only used to notify the server name or server number of the main website, that is being added after this prefix. As ‘www’ is the standard and commonly provided prefix, which is being followed for a long era of time, there is no rules to strictly follow on it.
While a web address is considered, the prefix can be anything which the developer of the website wishes, but the end part(eg: .co, .in, .com etc) should follow either of the valid format.
Now you might have understood the difference between ‘www’ and ‘ww38’, check yourself by providing ‘ww38’ instead of ‘www’ on your search field and it will surely accept it.
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