Toshiro Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 Sir Timothy Berners-Lee, modest creator of the internet, has a confession to make. When confronted with the question, “if you could go back in time and change anything along the way to inventing the internet, what would you change,” Sir Timothy hedged. Well, he said, you cannot in fact see what would have happened if you had made changes, implying that there may be spiraling consequences to a single small action (chaos theory). But he did make mention one change that he would have made:The “//” in “http://” could in fact be just a single “/” if he had coded it properly.He goes on to wonder how much paper could have been saved, minutes not wasted, and breaths untaken if no one had ever been forced to say, use, or type both slashes. All kidding aside, the full interview is a fascinating look into the mind of a great man. He is after all the father of the rise of office unproductivity, and Rickrolling. The discussion of the slashes starts at the 3:30 mark.Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted October 14, 2009 Administrator Share Posted October 14, 2009 He is right. But do I (need to) type HTTP//: everytime? :s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shought Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 If you'd type that you probably wouldn't be visiting a webpage :PBut for real, nah, you don't need to, Firefox will fix it for you automatically :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted October 14, 2009 Administrator Share Posted October 14, 2009 Yea I know that. :DWell when I used internet for the first time, in IE, someone told me to press CTRL+ENTER to make it proper. Then I came to know that there was no need to use CTRL. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janus Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 If you ask me, he didn't include enough backslashes, colons and http should be spelled out for clarity. Also smiley faces and hearts were obviously necessary. Furthermore, he invented HTML i believe, not the internetz. Damn british, trying to take credit for everything. :PBetter-> hypertexttransferprotocol:☺:☺:☺:/♥/♥/♥/www.nsaneforums.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irefay Posted October 18, 2009 Share Posted October 18, 2009 If you ask me, he didn't include enough backslashes, colons and http should be spelled out for clarity. Also smiley faces and hearts were obviously necessary. Furthermore, he invented HTML i believe, not the internetz. Damn british, trying to take credit for everything. :PBetter-> hypertexttransferprotocol:☺:☺:☺:/♥/♥/♥/www.nsaneforums.comhaha. <//♥/♥/♥/laugh{\\}> <-Looks like Java to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manpe Posted October 18, 2009 Share Posted October 18, 2009 Man, I couldn't care less about the /////////////////////////////////// :s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toshiro Posted October 18, 2009 Author Share Posted October 18, 2009 Man, I couldn't care less about the /////////////////////////////////// :s:lmao: hahah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HATE9X Posted October 18, 2009 Share Posted October 18, 2009 // a mistake? :fear: i didn't want to know that. :mellow: internetz would feel so incomplete without that extra / smiling to u from the address bar. :unsure: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted October 18, 2009 Administrator Share Posted October 18, 2009 Don't you think we all have wasted a whole internet forum page postin just "/". :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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