Originally Posted by raymor

Btw tabasco, it's my fault. A couple of other guys and I worked out the (www\.) code in 1998 and posted it to TLA's board and on my site, where the SEs loved it. From there, it made it's way to a popular mainstream tech site and then it became the de facto standard. So your .htaccess redirected me only because that's the way I wrote it thirteen years ago. I did it to myself.

(I can recognize my lineage for sure due to details like http(s)?. The (s)? had never been included before I posted that revision on TLA's.)