# Tim Berners-Lees One Regret Regarding the Web

<http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/the-webs-inventor-regrets-one-small-thing/>

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## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words)

Steve Lohr, interviewing Tim Berners-Lee:



  If he were do it over again today, would he do anything differently? Any regrets?

  
  Mr. Berners-Lee smiled and admitted he might make one change  a small one. He would get rid of the double slash // after the http: in Web addresses.

## Facts

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## Elsewhere

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