What does www mean ?

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www stands for world wide web.

For your information the rest of the web address is made up as follows.

The web address is sometimes referred to as the URL, which stands for Uniform Resource Locater, the URL is the full web address and can be broken down as follows.

The Protocol - this is normally the http:// part of the address although you may also come accross other protocols (such as ftp://).

The Domain - the domain of the website - eg www.happy-online.co.uk - the domain name will have a tld(top level domain) as part of the address. (in the above case the tld is .co.uk - the most common and sought after tld is .com). Note it is not always necessary to type www. - if you type happy-online.co.uk or www.happy-online.co.uk in your address bar you will be taken to the same website.

The File Path - the location of the page/file within the website eg www.happy-online.co.uk/tutorial/www.html indicates that the file is named www.html and is in the tutorial directory.

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