Time saver: WWW vs World Wide Web fact
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Overview
This is a two-panel black and white meme featuring Skeletor from He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. The first panel shows Skeletor lounging and laughing, with overlaid text stating a counterintuitive fact: it takes longer to say WWW than it takes to say World Wide Web. The second panel shows Skeletor walking away into a dark cave, with text reading 'Until we meet again'. The humor comes from the realization that the 3-letter acronym WWW requires 9 syllables to pronounce (three 'double-u' sounds) while the full phrase 'World Wide Web' only takes 6 syllables, making the acronym ironically less efficient for spoken use, matching the original 'Time saver' title joke.
Origin notes
This meme was sourced from an RSS feed of the Reddit Meme subreddit, with the original upload title 'Time saver'. It uses a widely popular existing meme template taken from the 1980s He-Man and the Masters of the Universe animated series, where Skeletor shares a surprising or unsettling fact before leaving dramatically.