Berners-Lee 'sorry' for slashes - Democratic Underground

Canuckistanian

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Wed Oct-14-09 09:51 PM
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Berners-Lee 'sorry' for slashes

The forward slashes at the beginning of internet addresses have long annoyed net users and now the man behind them has apologised for using them.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web, has confessed that the // in a web address were actually "unnecessary".

He told the Times newspaper that he could easily have designed URLs not to have the forward slashes.

"There you go, it seemed like a good idea at the time," he said.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8306631.stm

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LearnedHand

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Wed Oct-14-09 10:16 PM
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1. Berners-Lee is one of my heroes, but ...

... DAMN, I thought those forward slashes were necessary. Oh, well. Glad most browsers append them now.

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parasim

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Wed Oct-14-09 10:24 PM
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2. That's funny...

Cracks me up that that guy once had the entire Internet on his Next computer. I can see apologizing for the slashes, I probably would too. I wonder if he apologizes for for enabling Michelle Malkin, though?

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girl gone mad

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Wed Oct-14-09 11:30 PM
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3. Entire WWW, you mean? n/t

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parasim

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Thu Oct-15-09 02:49 PM
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6. Yeah, that's what I meant... not the internet.

Not sure why I didn't catch myself before posting it.

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MUAD_DIB

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Wed Oct-14-09 11:50 PM
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4. Que?

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struggle4progress

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Thu Oct-15-09 08:47 AM
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5. He's been saying this for years. From 2006:

... BCS managing editor Brian Runciman interviews the inventor of the Web Sir Tim Berners-Lee.

Looking back on 15 years or so of development of the Web is there anything you would do differently given the chance?

I would have skipped on the double slash - there's no need for it. Also I would have put the domain name in the reverse order - in order of size so, for example, the BCS address would read: http:uk/org/bcs/members. This would mean the BCS could have one server for the whole site or have one specific to members and the URL wouldn't have to be different ...

http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.3337

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