The Competition

Talking about the net on the radio, you soon realise that there's a major problem. You want to give people directions to a place on the Web and, if you have a BBC accent, you end up saying:

Aitch Tee Tee Pee Colon Slash Slash Double-u Double-u Double-u Dot
... before you've even started.

So, in conjunction with the BBC radio program The Network, I announced a competition for a pronounciation.

And the winner is...

Alan Mackley

with the pronounciation

hit-web

(Or just hit for sites with no "www.")

Picture of the prizes

The prizes will wing their way to Alan just as soon as the producer gets back from holiday and unlocks the secret of Alan's email address, so we can ask him for a physical address.

Many people suggested that there is no need to say anything, since in browsers like Netscape you can enter "banana" and the program will guess

http://www.banana.com.

It took, naturally enough, a librarian (Brian Kelly) to point out that there'll be another protocol along in a moment, and then we'll have to specify which one we're using.

There's a listing of the entries here.

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