AN APOLOGY FROM THE MAN WHO INVENTED THE URL DOUBLE SLASH

BBC - The forward slashes at the beginning of internet addresses have long annoyed net users and now the man behind them has apologized for using them. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web, has confessed that the // in a web address were actually "unnecessary".

He told the Times newspaper that he could easily have designed URLs not to have the forward slashes. "There you go, it seemed like a good idea at the time," he said.

He admitted that when he devised the web, almost 20 years ago, he had no idea that the forward slashes in every web address would cause "so much hassle".