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when naming the protocol part of a url, obviously you don't want to pick something so verbose, but that doesn't mean you gotta pick an acronym. could be hyper:// or smth. not saying it should be, just saying there are other ways that a more verbose concept can be shorted for certain contexts

Exactly. If people HAVE to save space, an abbreviation is much clearer than an initialism.

Every day we stray further from gopher://

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