Not to mention that Tim Berners-Lee himself says that the // was superfluous in retrospect. Regardless, I don't think that paying homage to a widely-known idios

Not to mention that Tim Berners-Lee himself says that the // was superfluous in retrospect. Regardless, I don't think that paying homage to a widely-known idiosyncrasy of our technological evolution is the worst way to go for a project like curl (a historic project in its own right).