i've often heard it called dubdubdub
this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2024
297 points (97.7% liked)
memes
21775 readers
3120 users here now
Community rules
1. Be civil
No trolling, bigotry or other insulting / annoying behaviour
2. No politics
This is non-politics community. For political memes please go to !politicalmemes@lemmy.world
3. No recent reposts
Check for reposts when posting a meme, you can only repost after 1 month
4. No bots
No bots without the express approval of the mods or the admins
5. No Spam/Ads/AI Slop
No advertisements or spam. This is an instance rule and the only way to live. We also consider AI slop to be spam in this community and is subject to removal.
A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
Sister communities
- !tenforward@lemmy.world : Star Trek memes, chat and shitposts
- !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world : Lemmy Shitposts, anything and everything goes.
- !linuxmemes@lemmy.world : Linux themed memes
- !comicstrips@lemmy.world : for those who love comic stories.
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
(I understand the joke, please don't explain it)
not in my language
Not in Sweden. Veveve.
I love it and will marry it.
That's why I say "dub dub dub" it confuses people and I have to explain that it's www which is short for world wide web but I saved a little bit of time by saying dub dub dub......wait a minute......
honestly I think w should be renamed "dub". stupid long-ass name for a single letter
load more comments
(1 replies)
load more comments
(4 replies)
Sure, but you sound like an absolute psycho saying "world wide web.MidgetPorn.edu"
Just pronounce it “wuhwuhwuh”
Dubdubdub
“Dub dub dub”.
It has to be 30 years that I've been using this. I might have said the full term a couple times at the start but that quickly ended.
load more comments
(1 replies)
well i sure hate that last picture
In Dutch www is faster. Never understood why one would give a letter a name that consists of 2 parts.
I don't get why w is called double u when it's clearly a double v
It's a long story. In short: In Latin script u and v were the same letter "u" but had two pronunciations depending on whether it was being used as a vowel or consonant. But when adapting the alphabet to Germanic languages (including Old English) the same two sounds were from two different letters, so they put two "u"s together to make double u: vv.
The full story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg2j7mZ9-2Y
In some languages (Spanish, for example) it's double v.
load more comments
(1 replies)
load more comments
(12 replies)
Here in france, everyone says "3w". Pronouncing it entirely sounds like "Double V, double V, double V" so "3w" sounds like "Trois double V", which funnily enough, is still longer than world wide web!
load more comments
(4 replies)
"hexa-u"
ViViVi
...or EmacsEmacEmacs, if that's your thing.
Watching old commercials is hilarious. "If YOU would like to see our locations on the world-wide-web, visit our website on your web browser by typing in w, w, w, dot, appliance, dash, direct, dot, com!"
It sounds too complicated for me. Probably intended for more advanced users.
My favorite was "The Information Superhighway."
load more comments
(1 replies)
If serious, it's because double-you, double-you, double-you (6 syllables) vs world-wide-web (3 syllables). A syllable sort of represents the amount of time it takes to say something.
So it takes twice as long to say www.
If not serious, yes, it's because your German. But then again, German humor isn't really that.
load more comments
(11 replies)
In Irish we say "wuh". And "punk" for dot.
Wuh wuh wuh punk lemmy punk world
Sounds like dubstep!
Irish Dubstep
Dublin-step
load more comments
(3 replies)
true story. Just as many syllables as 1 W.
Even faster to say Net
I generally say “werwerwer”.
I do not pronounce that part of a URL. Who still does that? Why would you need to do that?
Because www.example.com and example.com, while the same website nearly all of the time, are technically different and could point to different places.
load more comments
(3 replies)
load more comments
(3 replies)
view more: next ›