Do you type in "www." before a web address?

[minionofmidas]

No of course not. This is not only incredibly pointless with modern browsers and how almost all URLs work (like seriously, why would anyone bother to take the time to type out www.uselectionatlas.org to reach this site?), it's actually a really awful habit since non-tech people will often type in "www." before every URL they're given even if not stated, and if it has a subdomain before the main domain (such as accounts.google.com) it won't work if the www. is added before. And as anyone who's worked a tech support job that involves directing people to subdomained websites can tell you, this is not just a small minority of really technically incompetent people who do this, but actually most people who are over the age of 40 and not tech geeks.

Be glad many of them have learned to avoid typing "http://" by now.

[minionofmidas]

I typed in com, and it did not take me to the valid address of www.com

If you hit ctrl-enter it does.

On my browser it takes one to www.com.com

Same here. W/o ctrl it takes me to a google page where the first result is com-magazin.de.

[minionofmidas]

One thing that particularly irks me is when people type "www.wikipedia.org" rather than "en.wikipedia.org" which is so much more efficient to do.

There are multiple versions of wikipedia though, with all languages having their own prefixes.

Do you typically switch between different language versions of Wikipedia?

How could anybody with half a braincell to jiggle and a good working command of more than one language avoid doing that?

[minionofmidas]

Okay, okay.  Sometimes the nerdery of the typical Atlas forum poster tends to slip my memory.

It's not just that (though it's a factor, see Ernest's post); mostly you have the disadvantage of being from a country that can afford insular provinciality.