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Tim Berners-Lee famously admitted that putting the double forward slash in web addresses was completely unnecessary and fundamentally just a massive waste of human time and effort.
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Tim Berners-Lee famously admitted that putting the double forward slash in web addresses was completely unnecessary and fundamentally just a massive waste of human time and effort.

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Tim Berners-Lee famously admitted that putting the double forward slash in web addresses was completely unnecessary and fundamentally just a massive waste of human time and effort. Decades later, he apologized for making people type the two slashes in every web address.

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