A closer look
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. The creator of the World Wide Web deeply apologized decades later for forcing the entire global population to constantly type those two redundant diagonal lines every single time they wanted to visit a specific website. When you multiply the two seconds it takes to type those slashes by billions of internet users over thirty years, you quickly realize he accidentally engineered one of the greatest cumulative losses of human productivity in modern history. The architecture of our vast global information network permanently contains a glaring syntactic error simply because a brilliant computer scientist thought it looked somewhat neat on a keyboard in the early nineties
