The inventor of the www redesigns the web without the double slash

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If he could start over Tim Berners-Lee, co-inventor of the World Wide Web, would abandon the programming convention of the double slash, this // that is placed after the http in all internet addresses.

This news comes from the New York Times. M. Berners-Lee, director of WC, has realised how much more economical he could have been in terms of the amount of paper used and the increased clarity that would have come from doing things differently. "The double slash, though a programming convention at the time, turned out to not be really necessary," Mr. Berners-Lee explained. "Look at all the paper and trees that could have been saved if people had not had to write or type out those slashes on paper over the years — not to mention the human labor and time spent typing those two keystrokes countless millions of times in browser address boxes... at the time though, it seemed like a good idea."
 

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