The man who created the World Wide Web has issued an apology, saying he could have created a different method for writing URL addresses.
Speaking at a US technology conference, Tim Berners-Lee said the two forward slashes at the beginning of every “www” address are unnecessary, and shouldn’t have been included in the original web design.
“I could have designed it without them. A lot of paper, trees and human labour could have been saved if people hadn’t had to type them,” he said.
Berners-Lee created the vast majority of the basis used for the world wide web during a job at CERN in the 1980s.
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