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Sir Tim Berners-Lee, and those stupid slashes: The man largely credited with devising the World Wide Web as we know it today is sorry:
Really, if you think about it, it doesn't need the //. I could have designed it not to have the //
We laugh, sure, because it's just a couple characters, and for those of us who were weened on older browsers typing them out is second nature. But the sheer on-the-phone-with-mom inconvenience caused by this oversight is impossible to quantify.
