So, for all the curious out there, in episode 16 of TWiG (This Week in Google), Mary Hodder kept saying H-T-P instead of H-T-T-P to refer to the HTTP protocol. And so, here’s my personal message to her:
Unless you were trying to refer to a type of amino acid or a kind of rocket fuel, Hypertext Transfer Protocol has the acronym HTTP, not HTP. Unfortunately, much as SQL or PNG or GIF, acronyms are pronounced letter by letter, and no one letter is skipped. So SQL isn’t Sequel, PNG isn’t Ping, GIF isn’t Jiff (even though the authors of the format don’t seem to agree, but I guess they don’t speak correct English either), and HTTP isn’t H-T-P. I’m sorry if this message seems targeted, especially after the whole talk about women on the Internet thing, but ugh, hurts my ears. My whole point: HTTP has 2 Ts.
