As the old saying goes, hindsight is 20-20. That’s the only explanation Sir Tim Berners-Lee offers for a mistake he made while designing the Internet. During an interview at a technology symposium in Washington Thursday, Berners-Lee said if he could go back and change one thing, he would leave out the “//” that appears at the beginning of a Web address. According to Beet.TV, the slashes are unnecessary, as long as there’s an “http:” at the beginning of the URL. “Really, if you think about it, you don’t need the double slash,” Berners-Lee said. “Think of the amount of print that’d be saved if I just removed the double slash.”
The man often credited with creating the Internet (no, not Al Gore) explained the mistake this way: “It seemed like a good idea at the time.” Seeing as we’ve used that excuse, ourselves, innumerable instances, and it’s never once worked, we’ve no other choice but to confirm that Berners-Lee is, in fact, a genius. [From: Beet.TV]
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