Things We Could Have Lived Without: The “//” In Web Addresses
October 16th, 2009
Filed under: Technology, Telecom
Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Internet and also me in a parallel universe, was interviewed on stage at the Embassy of Finland in Washington recently. And among some pretty interesting things he discussed (aside from describing a photo of a squirrel with huge testicles, and cats!) was the fact of the unnecessaryness of the double backslashes in web addresses. Video here.
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October 16th, 2009 at 7:44 pm
“/” is not backslash! “\” is backslash.
October 16th, 2009 at 7:46 pm
That’s a slash. not a backslash. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backslash