Sorry about the "//", says Tim Berners-Lee

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Web inventor wishes he had never bothered with the double-slash convention for URLs

Berners-Lee: No // necessary The inventor of the worldwide web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has admitted that he wishes he had not bothered with the “//” prefix used in all web site addresses. In ...

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