Tim Berners-Lee, co-inventor of the World Wide Web with Robert Cailliau, is now president of the influential World Wide Web Consortium (or W3C) which dictates the major laws of the Internet. On the occasion of an interview with the New York Times, Tim Berners-Lee is back on the things he could have done differently when creating technical protocols of the Internet. And after a short reflection, especially the use of double slash (or "//") in URLs that seems to regret.

"With hindsight, I realize that we might well have done without the double slash. At the time this seemed like a good idea, but with the power of the Internet today, I think the number of Once people support this key, the slash, because of me. I guess even the number of trees that could have been saved following the printing of billions and billions of slash on paper (.. .) We have had everything to gain, even the Web addresses have been more readable "said Tim Berners-Lee.