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If Sir Tim Berners-Lee had his time again he'd probably leave // out.
- nopassrecover 17y agoHe has also said he'd leave out the colon. I thought the whole point was to distinguish the protocol from the path. I can't believe the BBC article completely misses that forward slashes are used for paths in Unix (and acceptable in most other OSes instead of back slashes). See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_%28computing%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_%28computing%29
- RiderOfGiraffes 17y agoSee also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=881278 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=881278 http://searchyc.com/berners?sort=by_date http://searchyc.com/berners?sort=by_date
- nopassrecover 17y agoAh thanks :-)
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