by palmagma on October 14th, 2009

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Sir Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web, admits that he could easily have designed URLs not to have forward slashes, and that the // in a web address were really an unnecessry waste of time, printing and paper. Your thoughts?

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  • by HasntBeen on October 14th, 2009

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    It makes crude URL parsers simpler to have that notation, but perhaps that's not an adequate justification. Really, if this is what he's upset about, we forgive him. He's done enough good stuff to make up for it :)

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