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

Because web browsers now add “www” automatically. Sometimes, you can replace “www” with something else to access a different thing, for example, if you use old.reddit.com instead of www.reddit.com, you will get redirected to the older style interface.