[Web4lib] A very basic quesiont on library home page URL format

[Edward Spodick]

At 6:46 PM -0700 6/2/05, Michael McCulley wrote:
>Early versions of Netscape and Mosiac had to have the "www" to find and
>access most servers via an URL. When IE came along, it "broke" the
>convention and provided translation for the domain name without requiring
>the "www" to exist as a name, DNS entry, or alias, etc. Thus, we got a more
>complex naming world, but also it "saved the time" somewhat of users who
>liked short-and-sweet and easier to type entries.

Hmmm.  That must have been some version you used.  :)
We have been using http://library.ust.hk/ and http://ustlib.ust.hk/
since early 1995 for our Web presence and OPAC respectively.
No "www.", and no one ever complained about its lack.

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Edward F Spodick, Information Technology Manager
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology Library
lbspodic at ust.hk  tel:852-2358-6743 fax:852-2358-1043