With the arrival of the new year, Travel Weekly and Insider bid
farewell to the familiar URL prefix http://, which we no longer
will bother with in listing Web addresses. As anyone who has so
much as looked at the Internet knows, this prefix pops up
automatically and universally (though its frequent companion, www,
does not, quite). Insider conducted a straw poll of known Web users
hereabouts and came up with an amusing common response. Asked what
"http" stood for, about a half-dozen dedicated Websters, one by
one, paused, pursed their lips, furrowed their brow a few moments
before squeezing out "Hypertext ... something ... maybe transfer
... protocol ... but don't quote me on that." For posterity, and
lest we forget, the uniform resource locator prefix does indeed
stand for "hypertext transfer protocol" -- to which, au revoir.