[CrackMonkey] [gkm@petting-zoo.net: Letter 'W' Goes Missing From White House Keyboards]

[Irish Bastard]

>>>>> "RE" == Robert Edmonds <stu at brainfood.com> writes:

    RE> On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 07:11:32PM -0800, Nick Moffitt wrote:
    >> He would joke to crowds that if his Democratic presidential
    >> rival, Al Gore (news - web sites), was so smart, why did every
    >> Internet address start with a W. ``And not just one W -- three
    >> Ws!'' he would exult.
    RE> ignorant savage.. every internet address starts with HTTP!

Only certain classes of URLs start with "http".  Internet addresses
(IP version 4, at any rate) are simple 32-bit quantities.

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