Easier internet addresses
November 14th, 2009 by Rene Zuleta
Tim Berners Lee
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the British computer scientist credited with creating the World Wide Web in 1989, doesn’t seem like a man who has many regrets. B
ut he admitted earlier this month at a symposium in Washington that his decision to include those annoying forward slashes in http addresses was made on a whim. If he could change one thing about the Internet now, he says, he would slash the slashes, which are completely unnecessary.
