The forward slashes at the beginning of internet addresses have long annoyed net users and now the man behind them has apologised for using them. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web, has confessed that the // in a web address were actually “unnecessary”, according to a story on the BBC.
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Breezeblog 
Wow. Didn’t know that the two slashes were such an annoyance. Shoot more annoying is file names with spaces in them, so their url comes out having a bunch of %20s all over the place. That to me is far worse…