The Worldwide Web
You wouldn’t be reading any of this if not for the invention of Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s invention – the worldwide web. Accessing the websites you know today traces its origins back to the British engineer’s invention!
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Tim Berners Lee developed HTML and created the World Wide Web, but his major regret relates to the '//' at the beginning of every web address.
"Really, if you think about it, it doesn't need the //. I could have designed it not to have the //," he said.
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