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Sir Tim Berners-Lee has said at a symposium on the future of technology that the two forward slashes after http: were not really needed.

“Really, if you think about it, it doesn’t need the //. I could have designed it not to have the //”, he said.

That is a lot of wasted finger energy over the years.

“There you go, it seemed like a good idea at the time.” he said.

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