I absolutely love this. World Wide Web founder, Tim Berners Lee recently admitted at a symposium in Washington that the forward slashes in http addresses are completely unnecessary and the decision to include them was made on a whim.

Now I don’t feel quite so bad about all those stupid, stupid filenames that, let’s face it, only web developers will ever notice.

Source: Time.com’s Top Ten Internet Blunders.

Here is Mr. Berners Lee on Ted.com talking about his next project.