I was just reading and ran across this earlier-wondering if any of the anons done any digging on this?
…an undergrad at M.I.T. — Roy Schoeman points out that in Jewish numeric schemata, “w.w.w.” (as in worldwide web) can mean “666.”
The Hebrew and Greek alphabet does not have separate characters or alphabets for numbers and letters. Letters are also used as numbers. So each letter is a numerical value. The Hebrew equivalent of our “w” is the letter “vav” or “waw.” The numerical value of vav is 6. So the English “www” transliterated into Hebrew is “vav vav vav”, which numerically is 666. "