Every website used to be like “www.example.com”. Now I rarely encounter this “www.”. Why did it even exist and where has it gone? I also used to run into websites with legitimate domains, but “ww1.” instead of “www.”, these were probably phishing sites, but how did this actually work on top of legitimate domains?
It was necessary to access many websites, unless the people running the site made an alias/redirect. Which yes, usually they did. But I definitely ran into cases where that didn’t happen and I worked on websites where it didn’t. Was rarely/almost never my decision on how that was set up. But yes from a tech perspective no one ever had to use that subdomain.Some websites were setup in a way that made it necessary to type. Apparently what I wrote above was somehow controversial.