<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Yes, that was a funny moment a few years ago.<div><br></div><div>See the New York Times Bits article, "The Web’s Inventor Regrets One Small Thing."</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/the-webs-inventor-regrets-one-small-thing/">http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/the-webs-inventor-regrets-one-small-thing/</a></div><div><br><div><div>On Jul 5, 2012, at 2:13 PM, Joly MacFie wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">I believe I have heard Tim B-L say that, in retrospect,
"://" was unnecessarily verbose.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Dave Crocker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dhc2@dcrocker.net" target="_blank">dhc2@dcrocker.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <scheme> "://" <scheme details> was in the original Web design.</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all">
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