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Sir Timothy Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web (World Wide Web), acknowledged that the use of double slash (two slashes) characters after the «http:» in the web address has no practical meaning.

Timothy Berners-Lee, a native of Great Britain, created the original model of World Wide Web at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Geneva (CERN), where he worked since 1980. Where subsequently were developed Universal Document Identifiers (UDI), HTML markup language and protocol HTTP. Fall of 1990 with the support of Mr. Berners-Lee,  the first Web server launched, then the World Wide Web came into the Internet project.

Speaking to the press at a symposium on the future of technology, Sir Berners-Lee acknowledged that in practice he could well have done without the use of two slashes at the beginning of Web addresses. For many years the existence of extra characters turned into a huge number of man-hours of useless work: users had to spend time not only to a set of unnecessary signs, but also, to correct mistakes – as early browsers did not have the automatic adjustments of the web addresses.

In addition, the inventor of the World Wide Web drew attention to the amount wasted paper and ink, that went to print countless unnecessary slashes in the literature, business documents, scientific papers …

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web.