World Wide Web creator sorry for the '//' and other things that don't matter

It doesn't bother me

I hope there is a technological breakthrough tonight so this fucking stupid ass post expiers. It's been three days I hope the moderated hasn't died.

I don't believe in the internet. I don't think it really exists.

I'm going to have to give you an out cold quote.

No regrets, that's my motto, that and everybody wang chung tonight.

There's nothing to be sorry about. However I had always wondered what it was for.

Mr. Lee has nothing to be sorry for..

The tool we take for granted has alter the way we receive information, deliver information and access information. I am grateful as a human to be able to live in these exciting times and use this tool.

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An apology? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HA!!!

There's nothing to be sorry about!!! But thanks for the thoughtfulness.

//awesome

Wasn't it a take on the whole C-Dos script? He's like; "Ha!!!!! You fools! I made this for money. you use this?" and were like, "Yeah, mostly for Online Dating and Porn." Thank you world wide web maker! We all LOVE your work. Now go get richer while I cum in my pants! Lol

He sounds like a very intelligent man. I wonder though if he is legitimately sorry or trying to get attention.

You've gotta get a kick out of the obsession that so many snot-nosed kids have with seeming to know more than everyone else and with acting like they did everything cool before everyone else discovered it. I know it was probably said tongue-in-cheek, but calling Tim Berners-Lee a "N00b" and mocking him for incorrectly saying the slashes are before the http is so typical of how many young people act condescending towards their elders. I agree with the lightbulb remark, even if it was Edison, not Einstein. It IS like a dimwitted physics student saying to Einstein "Duhhh... everyone has heard of the theory of relativity, that is nothing new."

Guy 1: So what would you say was the greatest accomplishment in your life?

Guy 2: I'd have to say it was buying that ranch I always wanted. You, guy #3?

Guy 3: I invented the internet.

Guy 1: Oh.

Here's a bit more:

A light has been shone on one of the great mysteries of the internet. What is the point of the two forward slashes that sit directly infront of the “www” in every internet website address?

The answer, according to the British scientist who created the world wide web, is that there isn’t one.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who wrote the code that transformed a private computer network into the web two decades ago, has finally come clean about the about the infuriating // that internet surfers have cursed so frequently.

The physicist admitted that if he had his time again, he might have made a change, or more specifically, two.

“Really, if you think about it, it doesn’t need the //. I could have designed it not to have the //”, he said, speaking at a symposium on the future of technology in Washington DC last week.

Sir Tim ruefully explained that when he started devising the network almost 30 years ago he could not have predicted the hassle that has been caused by his small error in thinking about the way a web address is written.

“Boy, now people on the radio are calling it ‘backslash backslash’,” Sir Tim told his audience, even though he knows they are, in fact, forward slashes.

Showing them his index finger he added: “People are having to use that finger so much.”

He knows that no one has calculated the number of exasperated groans emitted at the sight of a “syntax error” message generated by the grave omission of a single slash.

Nor is there a figure on the number of occupational therapists kept in work treating repetitive strain injury caused by prodding the far right-hand button on the bottom row of a standard keyboard.

Nowadays web browsers such as Explorer usually fill in the slashes if you start the address with “www”.

But Sir Tim still laments the amount of additional printing that those two strokes have created over the years — an unimaginable legacy of printer ink and paper that has been wasted on those unnecessary characters.

The physicist is credited with being the architect of the world wide web, which was to transform the internet into something usable and understandable by more than just computer programmers.

“Suppose all the information stored on computers everywhere else were linked,” he mused in his book, Weaving the Web. “Suppose I could program my computer to create a space in which anything could be linked to anything.”

Today the URLs — better known as web addresses — that Sir Tim created, beginning http://www, are familiar to anyone navigating their way around the internet.

Many have argued that he would have been awarded the Nobel prize had his discoveries had been spun out of traditional sciences.

Today, he is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which oversees the web’s continued development.

Considering his achievements, maybe Sir Tim can be forgiven his double-slash mistake. How was he to know that his interesting idea would cause the biggest revolution in communications since the creation of the printing press?

The error is characteristic of a restless man with big ideas that he wanted to implement quickly. Colleagues at the CERN institute in Geneva where he developed his ideas asked him to speak in French instead of English in the hope of slowing down his torrent of words.

If he had eased up a little, maybe he would have spotted his error in thinking.

Although he acknowledges the mistake, he addresses it with a shrug of the shoulders.

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

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article6872873.ece

There he goes again taking credit for Al Gore's invention, but if he's going to take the credit, he's willing to take the blame.

haha! that's pretty funny :)

I over look it. It's not really needed now or it's just automatically put in when I use different browsers.

He should be more sorry for giving it such a dull name, I would of called it something fantastic like "The Magnificent Berners-Lee Mass Unifying Electro-Combobulation"

Tim Berners Lee could have made millions by selling his ideas and skills to a massive conglomerate company but he didn't because he wanted to keep the internet open and encourage progress as much as possible. What a fantastic guy.

It's ok Tim, we forgive you, where would we be without the t'internet?
Also, how awesome would it be if you could say "Do you know who I am? I invented the Internet!"

The guy has wasted many second of my life. I demand it back in a form of a echeque.

I didn't know there were slashes before "http". Lol, sorry. I kinda felt like being an ass. On a more serious note, I've been online since '93, and I think it makes it more futuristic looking, so..why not? I like the future.

Would it then just be http:current.com?

HEADmc is right though. Half the time in my drunken internet search fits, somehow the jumble mess I string together does bring me right where I need to be.

Thanks Firefox. Thirefox.

hahah. apology accepted..

"forcing people to type out the (essentially unnecessary) double slash before the 'http' in URLs"

Then did someone shout "It's AFTER http N00b!!!!!"?

Seems like a pretty humble guy, i'd drink a brew or two with him

At least softwear caught up and u don't have go type the exact address.