I don't even remember why the teacher asked us this as it was a first aid class, but it pops into my head every now and then.

Teacher: "What's the first three letters in any website address?"

Me:"htt?"
Everyone else: "www"

Stupidos)

Is that a question?

Most of my sites don't even work with www.

😅

i'm not sure what the official stance is, but i don't think protocol name counts as part of the website name, since websites are a feature of only one protocol?

The term "website address" is not well defined. It may be interpreted as the website's URL or the website's hostname + path.
But in the latter case, the question has no true answer, as there is at least one website with a host name starting with "www" and at least one website having a host name not starting with "www".
So if you give the benefit of doubt, "website address" has to be a synonym for "URL" and therefore "htt" has to be the correct answer.

I came into web development from a networking (and unrelated: game dev) background, so to me a “website address” is its IP address. Everything else is just sugar.

@linuxxx And this is on purpose. I find the www. thing bullshit in this day and age.

@linuxxx I never fully understood the purpose of the www (I'm young). Was it a standard way of specifying listening http host on a domain? If so, why (when I say why I don't mean why "www")?

@pxeger I honestly don't care if it's an industry standard. I find it bullshit to use nowadays so I simply don't :)

@WildPotato You have no idea.

I left the game industry because of absolutely epic burnout. It lasted for well over two years after I left. While I absolutely do miss it, I very much doubt I will ever go back.