Happy....

[Talk19Zehn]

In the United States of America, "WWW" may stand for something other than World Wide Web. I am not in a position to judge that.
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee wrote the first Internet protocol in CERN (Switzerland), I believe.

Read more:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee

BTW: and on it goes ...

Language German
https://seoevangelist.de/was-bisher-geschah/
...(...)...
vlib (WWW Vitual Library [VL]), dem ältesten Katalog des Internets. Dieser wurde noch höchstpersönlich vom Vater des Internets (Sir Tim Berners-Lee) im Jahre 1991 in CERN (Genf) gestartet. Dieses historisch gewachsene Verzeichnis war damals so ziemlich das Stärkste, was das Internet zu bieten hatte, zu dem noch völlig unbekannt (ausser in der akademischen/Universitätswelt).
...(...)...

Translation wrote:

Language British
https://seoevangelist.de/was-bisher-geschah/

...(...)...
vlib (WWW Vitual Library [VL]), the oldest catalogue of the Internet. It was started personally by the father of the Internet (Sir Tim Berners-Lee) in 1991 in CERN (Geneva). At that time, this historically grown directory was about the most powerful thing the Internet had to offer, and it was still completely unknown (except in the academic/university world).
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Best regards

[Mick]

The point I’m trying to make is the acronym ‘WWW’ was used by radio hams for many years before the birth of the internet on the key and then from about 1982 via packet radio.

[Lumpy Burgertushie]

maybe WWW was used for that in the ham radio world before it was used to mean world wide web but since web pages were made available in the early nineties and the internet was used for showing them, WWW became used to mean the world wide web.
most people have never heard of it being used for anything else.
having said all of that, its use today in URLs is almost completely un needed. about the only servers that require it are the standard out of date military and older college server setups.

robert

[[Dimetrodon]]

I'm sure something had the acronym www before the internet. It's not a complex acronym.

[HiFiKabin]

Is WWW the only acronym that takes longer to say than what its an acronym for?

[Mick]

It’s a lot shorter in CW trust me

[Talk19Zehn]

Mick, you wanted to jump on Morse-Code.
Example:
.__.__.__ ....

Whoever masters this has probably won, not only in times of crisis.
Radio technologies like Morse-Code are almost unimaginable in this day and age. Although there are still numerous users, such as clubs and enthusiasts for it and/or important government institutions. Yes, it is a linguistic "art" to use them.
I must honestly admit that I did not understand the leap at first.
Thank you for your clarification.

Best regards and wishes. (Happy) ...

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Edit: 02 May 2023, 16:42
Oh, I just noticed that you or another authorised person edited your previous post.
At least it clarified things for me = thank you very much for that impression.

Many regards!

[bubbathegimp]

It’s a lot shorter in CW trust me

hi hi om 73 De Bubba
dit dit

[ILoveNitro]

There must be some longer acronyms out there...

[warmweer]

There must be some longer acronyms out there...

TANSTAAFL is the longest one I know and each time I see it i get the ROFLMAO vibes.

Added: just did a search and there are longer ones but in most cases they're abbreviations of specialised terms and aren't commonly used IMHO.

[stevemaury]

TEOTWAWKI

[Talk19Zehn]

Hi,

German: Zündwarenmonopolgesellschaft -> There seems to be no translation to English ...

The word in Morse code .... - please help ... It is not a joke.

Kind regards

[warmweer]

Hi,

German: Zündwarenmonopolgesellschaft -> There seems to be no translation to English ...

The word in Morse code .... - please help ... It is not a joke.

Kind regards

translation to English = Society for the Safety Matches Monopoly
see https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zündwarenmonopol >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zündwaren_monopoly

Morse=
--.. ..-- -. -.. .-- .- .-. . -. -- --- -. --- .--. --- .-.. --. . ... . .-.. .-.. ... -.-. .... .- ..-. -

see https://morsedecoder.com/

[Talk19Zehn]

Hello warmweer,

well, "Monopoly" didn't come to my mind at all, because it reminded me of the world-famous game:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_(game) -

Thank you, we will try the suggestion (Morse) with pleasure. However, we have to wait for the person who knows morse and put it on reception and so on and so forth.
It is really a challenge.

Best regards

[Mick]

Is that an actual word or an acronym?

I challenge any of my CW compatriots to bang that out at 30wpm without a mistake

I tried twice and failed with muscle cramps in my paddle fingers around ‘pol’ and ‘haft’