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As the title of this question already reveals: What is the difference between the @Online and @WWW literature type in BibLaTeX?

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    Documentation clearly says that www is "An alias for @online, provided for jurabib compatibility."
    – yudai-nkt
    Jan 28, 2018 at 15:54

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According to the biblatex documentation on page 13, §2.1.2 Type Aliases,

[@www is] An alias for @online, provided for jurabib compatibility.

In Appendix A you'll find a definition that for @www amounts to

\DeclareDriverSourcemap[datatype=bibtex]{
  \map{
    \step[typesource=www, typetarget=online]
  }
}

This means that Biber converts all @www references to references of type @online. This happens even before biblatex gets to see these references. So as far as biblatex is concerned, there is no type @www, there is only @online.

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    I totally imagine biblatex standing there, in its own world, its own reality, its own filter bubble going: "there is no type @www, there is only @online". How sad for biblatex to not know the whole scope of the truth!
    – thymaro
    Jan 30, 2018 at 12:27
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    @thymaro But maybe it is better that way. biblatex does not need to know about the differences between @www and @online (what differences, anyway?) and can happily work on more important matters, blissfully unaware of the fact that the BibTeX world is fragmented and inconsistent at times.
    – moewe
    Jan 30, 2018 at 12:32

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