Sir Tim Berners-Lee (Also known as that guy that did the making of the internet tubes type stuff) has admitted that he didn’t really need to put two slashes near the start of a URL.
“Really, if you think about it, it doesn’t need the //. I could have designed it not to have the //”, he said, speaking at a symposium on the future of technology in Washington DC last week.
I’m not one to complain, but bearing in mind most browsers work fine if you omit the beginning http://, is it really that much of a problem for people? I liken it to an intelligence test, namely if you can’t remember to type that correctly, you don’t deserve to see the content.
[via The Times]
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