URI

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https://archive.nytimes.com/bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/the-webs-inventor-regrets-one-small-thing/

He would get rid of the double slash “//” after the “http:” in Web addresses.

https://www.welcometothejungle.com/en/articles/btc-url-internet “I have to say that now I regret that the syntax is so clumsy. I would like http://www.example.com/foo/bar/baz to be just written http:com/example/foo/bar/baz where the client would figure out that www.example.com existed and was the server to contact. But it is too late now,” writes Berners-Lee, adding in 2012: “The URL will be the last thing to change because that’s the thing that ties it all together.”

http://www.example.com/foo/bar/baz
http:com/example/foo/bar/baz