World Wide Web creator sorry for the '//' and other things that don't matter
By Laura June 
posted October 15th 2009 10:02PM
posted October 15th 2009 10:02PM
posted October 15th 2009 10:02PM
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If I may, Its Sir.Tim Berners-Lee
What the shit? //htttp:engadget.com doesn't take me anywhere!
I bet you didn't actually try that, takes me to google with as the first result a link to the definition of HTTP and as second link some site with photos of net-sluts.
darn it no net sluts for me :(
well at least he is humble and not like ooh look at me im perfect
You think they'll throw the "//" out come web 3.0?
I heard that web 3.0 will have meme blocking software.
Until then:
In Soviet Russia, Memes blocks you.
Yeah but that double whack enabled countless more whacks. oh.
This guy looks like Tim Vine. So to my mine, Tim Vine created the internet.
Jebus with the typos. To my MIND.
I've been reading too much engadget.
The reason you need the WWW is to denote a address that is located on the world wide web and not some page that is located on your local network. yes believe it or not there are other networks then the internet.
And the person who mentioned where the internet was created saying it was NeXT im pretty sure they were using BSD or some form of UNIX at that time since that's where TCPIP originated from. Also wasn't it at Berkley. Now the first web page ever created was at CERN on a NeXT box that is correct but by that time the internet was already around
And to the apple people and the Microsoft fanatics both your operating systems include work not even created by there parent company. Both are slimy thieves along with most of the technical corporations for stealing ideas from each-other neither of you both usually have any idea what your even talking about and from a pure technical standpoint a Apple computer is a standard PC anyway. Both apple and Microsoft owe alot to the open source community mostly apple because most of there operating system would be useless without free software that was created independent of linux or bsd
Thank you, Tim Berners-Lee, for creating the biggest time-waster the modern world has ever known. Without you, we wouldn't have easy-access pr0n. :)
SIR Tim Berners-Lee..
And yes thank you sir tim, you could have become the richest man on the planet and yet you decided to free the WWW and get ennobled instead.
For some reason I sometimes think that John Gruber deserves a little more credit for his interesting posts.
I wish that was my only regret!
So... Why not change it? make the them optional so sites resolve with or without them. Would that be too difficult to do or something?
I think it is funny that he lamented about something so small... But I always wondered why they were there!
ALL browsers already don't need them, nor do people really, so there's no need to change it.
But yeah I would like to know the original rationale, I know the // is a way to halt processing and get the / character in commandline utilities and such, and before the web he must have used that, so perhaps there's some link-in that way? perhaps it was needed when most of the interacting was typed commands, but that would only explain why 2 instead of 1 and not why even one was needed. Maybe to distinguish the name of the protocol from an actual address? I'm now wildly guessing though.
FIRST @!@!
Helps forums to autodetect URL and make them clickable though, the slashes.
No wonder I can't find anything! I thought the web was a big trick someone was playing on me. :)
Myspace
Another Black Season
IRAQ is saved China is going in to drill oil they think abu grab was bad them chinamen dont leave no evidence you even existied.
Hey, what gives??? Like PUGGS said, everyone knows Al Gore invented the internet!!
Why didn't you help Al Gore when he said he invented the internet? Wasn't he your assistant?
WAIT A MINUTE!!!! Al Gore said that HE invented the internet!! Where's the journalistic fact-checking here? Al where are you. We need to file a lawsuit.
Oh I thought this would be an article about Al Gore instead we get another imposter. The web has been around since the 40's I believe when only the government used it. So they werent real specific but typical poor journalism/reporting.
What are you people smoking? Reread the article. It says the // is after the HTTP. And there are no words spelled incorrectly.
No more paper? The day they stop printing paper books is the day I stop reading.
It is still not "fact" that Ted created the web. In fact, it is not true at all. One night I was in my den smoking PCP and Ted came over to score. During one of my usual geeked out rants I mentioned my idea for an internet and he stole my idea. I currently have a lawsuit for $60.00 pending against Ted. $20.00 for stealing my idea and $40.00 for the bag he never paid for. Scumbag
I thought Al Gore, jet-setting savior of the planet, invented the internet!! Who does this hack think he is taking the credit?!
the funny part of all this is. that you don't even have to type it any more. the "http://www." is not needed. just, try it. it could save you a couple of hours over the course of your life.
Wait a minute... NO one's blaming Obama? Why not? Isn't ANYone going to say that the "backslash-backslash-whatever" is really a secret socialist tool, invented by the Obama administration twenty years ago at the advent of the Web? NO? Well THANKS, yawl!! Besides, everyone knows Alexander Hamilton was the TRUE originator of all URLs anyway, or wait, wasn't it Fillmore?
AL GORE INVENTED THE INTERNET !! EVERYONE KNOWS THAT!
One thing I can say for Al Gore, he certainly helped popularize the internet all those years ago. Before Al Gore spoke of the "Information Superhighway" and how he saw it as the wave of the future, few of us knew about the web.
The October 26, 1993 issue of the New York Times: "One of the technologies Vice President Al Gore is pushing is the information superhighway, which will link everyone at home or office to everything else—movies and television shows, shopping services, electronic mail and huge collections of data."
Love or hate him, he was certainly right.
Did I miss something? I thought Al Gore invented the Internet.... BWAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
THANKS FOR SCREWING UP THE WHOLE WORLD!