Top 10 Internet Blunders
In light of Sir Tim Berners-Lee's admission this month that he should have designed World Wide Web http addresses without the double forward slashes, TIME looks back at some other memorable screwups involving the Internet
Slashing the Slashes
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the British computer scientist credited with creating the World Wide Web in 1989, doesn't seem like a man who has many regrets. But he admitted earlier this month at a symposium in Washington that his decision to include those annoying forward slashes in http addresses was made on a whim. If he could change one thing about the Internet now, he says, he would slash the slashes, which are completely unnecessary.
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