Posted on 10/14/2009 8:08:48 PM PDT by Steelfish
I think the guy is wrong. The "//" is there to make parsing easy because two backslashes are extremely rare in written English (and I assume all other languages as well). When you are constructing a parser you work your way through a document looking for patterns. When you see :// you know that you have a URL on your hands. Leave out the // and you just might come across some guy who named his company "Harold's Temporary Teaching Patterns" and wants to use http as the abbreviation for his company name. Could happen. Would happen. But not if you use good old //.
NOW wait just one minute...
I read here. FREEREPUBLIC. I mean Here. Al Gore invented the internet.
(Before HIS Nobel)
LOL, I wonder if he saw the Internet turning into what it is?
He could have never foreseen something like this...
Hehe, that’s great!
NOT QUITE.
His work started in 1989. That's TWO decades, not three.
Good lord, now journalists can't even subtract, much less write...
“This browser doesn;t need to have www punched in.”
Actually, depends upon the domain’s DNS entries. Not the browser.
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