why around the year 2000 we had to put “www.” before each website and now we no longer need to.

Question

I am born in 1999, I remember having to write “www.” before my website in the address bar otherwise it would not work. Later in elementary school it no longer needed to be done to access the website. What happened?

In: Technology

Answer 1

a web address goes <servername>.<domainname>.<extension>

if you just do [google.com](https://google.com) then the dns for [google.com](https://google.com) needs to redirect it go a server or else it goes nowhere. by default it goes to the www server. back when the internet was new, it was just convention to do it “properly” by putting [www](http://www). nowadays, if you just type [domainname.com](https://domainname.com) it by default goes to www (but not always), depends how the dns is setup for it.