And who invented the slash? - Tired of having to always type in
"forward slash, forward slash" when you visit a website? Well,
the scientist who created those slashes as part of web addresses
now regrets that he did it that way. And to protect yourself
from computer viruses, you may soon have ants in your computer.
BBC News reports that Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide
Web 30 years ago, admits that the // in a web address were
actually "unnecessary" and he could easily have designed URLs
without them, but "it seemed like a good idea at the time." BBC
quotes him as saying that he had no idea that the forward
slashes in every web address would cause "so much hassle." Have
you got ants in your computer? If you do, it's not because
you've been eating lunch while computing again, it's because you
have the latest kind of firewall! In the never-ending battle to
protect computer networks from intruders, security experts are
deploying a new defense modeled after one of nature NOTE: This
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