QuoteSir Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web, has confessed that the // in a web address were actually "unnecessary".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8306631.stm
Nice to see a geek with a sense of humour. ;)
It seems a bit pointless in him saying this. People only do this sort of thing for publicity, does he have a book coming out?
That's deliciously cynical, Niall. :)x
He just needed a forward slash or two >:D
When I was at school, a forward slash was called the "shilling mark".
When I left school, my print-related trade called it the "solidus".
When I took a typing course it was called the "oblique".
When I started learning about HTML it was called the "forward slash".
It's opposite number is the "backslash" - why isn't the forward slash now called the "frontslash"?
End of post as I need a slash...