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Posted at: 10/15/09 11:05 PM

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Berners-Lee 'sorry' for slashes

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web, has confessed that the // in a web address were actually "unnecessary".

Sorry bastard! My life has been RUINED by these fucking slashes...

but seriously, has anyone ever been "hassled" by putting // in the web url?

take THAT Al Gore!

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Posted at: 10/15/09 11:09 PM

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Even if it is unnecessary, it is still not hard to push your finger a few millimeters down on a button.

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Posted at: 10/15/09 11:11 PM

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At 10/15/09 11:09 PM, yugimt wrote: Even if it is unnecessary, it is still not hard to push your finger a few millimeters down on a button.

I think it was more about all the ink and paper, and file space that's been wasted over the years from having two extra characters in every single link that has ever appeared, ever.

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So what?

I don't find it difficult to add a couple of slashes for one half of a second.

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Posted at: 10/15/09 11:12 PM

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i for one like the forward slashes. they look stylish.

could you imagine urls without them? yuck!

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Posted at: 10/15/09 11:13 PM

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"The forward slashes at the beginning of internet addresses have long annoyed net users"

How? What is so difficult about hitting the same key twice?

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Posted at: 10/15/09 11:13 PM

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//

Isn't really that big a deal if you ask me.

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hey, i just noticed...you don't even have to put those things in. just start with www.

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Posted at: 10/15/09 11:18 PM

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This is pretty interesting, I never really knew the origin of the //'s. But uhhh no they've never been that much of a hassle..

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Posted at: 10/15/09 11:19 PM

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I don't use them. I start the web address with www.

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Posted at: 10/15/09 11:23 PM

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You know what, I had never thought about it before... but now that you mention it they really do bug me. You know it wouldn't have even been a problem, never knowing that those slashes where all that important or absolutely useless. But now... now that I know the truth I feel cheated. I feel like my entire life has been wasted! Damn it Tim, what have you done to me! You're killing me Tim, your killing me!

Yes, it's that big of a deal.

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Posted at: 10/15/09 11:28 PM

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At 10/15/09 11:13 PM, TheLameSauce wrote: hey, i just noticed...you don't even have to put those things in. just start with www.

You don't even have to put www. at the start. Newgrounds.com would work find.

And with Firefox's automatic "I'm Feeling Lucky" search you can just type Newgrounds into the URL bar and it will take you straight there.

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Posted at: 10/15/09 11:32 PM

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I don't even put http://www I just type in the web name and .com You don't need the beginning in any browser.

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Hmm Http: looks too plain.

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with most browsers you dont even have to put www. some just take newgrounds.com

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At 10/15/09 11:35 PM, Dmabster wrote: with most browsers you dont even have to put www. some just take newgrounds.com

We've established this twice already.

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// starts to stack up when you are coding a site.

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Posted at: 10/15/09 11:57 PM

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Because it is so much more work to press the slash key twice...

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Posted at: 10/16/09 12:01 AM

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what does al gore have anything to do with it?

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Posted at: 10/16/09 01:01 AM

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http:
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My browser adds //.

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So what I want to know is why he did that in the first place...?

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