One of the creators of the worldwide web has apologised for the double slashes at the start of internet addresses.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, said there was no good reason for them.
"Really, if you think about it, it doesn't need the //. I could have designed it not to have the //", The Times reported.
He said he could not have predicted 30 years ago that the two small marks would cause so much annoyance.
"There you go, it seemed like a good idea at the time," he said.
He was involved in writing the code which transformed a private network into the public web.
Modern web browsers will now usually fill in the 'http://' at the start of web addresses for you.
Source: NZ Herald
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