It needs traction and to solve the chicken-and-egg problem. There is not many documents to look at, and to make people look at all these documents you need many people to put up their documents on such a proposed web, and in a special form!
it needs a better name to get recognition. 'double-u double-u double-u' is hard to pronounce.
It's actually in the Bible in some languages... Revelation 8:13 has "woe woe woe" which is "wee wee wee" in dutch, which does translate to "double-u double-u double-u"
they better check if it's not something offensive in chinese.
I usually say "triple-double-u" when I reference it verbally. I had a project manager long ago that would say dub-dub-dub and it just sounded silly to me.
Back in the mid 90s a colleague embarked on a (fruitless) attempt to get all the people he knwe to call their Web hosts 'web' as in web.example.com. A shame that he failed, I feel.
That was always my preferred alternative. WWW just sounds kinda stupid, especially when people try to read out a URL on TV or radio.
Considering that people still type www even when asked to go to an IP address, I'm not sure this would have changed anything in regards to non-technicals' understanding of how the internet works.
Unless httpd is running on a different server from your second-level domain, and your primary use of your second-level domain is something other than serving http, then the use of a www subdomain is silly. Changing it to "web" makes it no less silly. There once was a movement to do away with it, but sadly http://no-www.org/ appears to have been essentially abandoned -- or at least very rarely updated.
You wouldn't believe how many webservers still can't direct you to the page without the www, I'm afraid.
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Amusingly, it requires more syllables to say ‘W.W.W.’ than it does to say ‘World wide web’.