{"id":4011,"date":"2011-01-02T03:33:56","date_gmt":"2011-01-02T11:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=4011"},"modified":"2011-11-08T21:59:08","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T05:59:08","slug":"the-purpose-of-the-forward-slashes-in-web-addresses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/01\/the-purpose-of-the-forward-slashes-in-web-addresses\/","title":{"rendered":"The Purpose of the Forward Slashes in Web Addresses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/forward-slashes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4012\" title=\"forward-slashes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/forward-slashes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"511\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/forward-slashes.jpg 558w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/forward-slashes-340x311.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>##EMBED##<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"First Website Ever\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/05\/the-first-website-ever-made\/\" target=\"_self\">Click Here to Read About the First Website Ever and the Development of the Web<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Text Version<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The \u201c\/\/\u201d forward slashes in any web address actually serve no real purpose according to Berners-Lee.\u00a0 He only put them in because \u201cit seemed like a good idea at the time.\u201d\u00a0 He wanted a way to separate the part the web server needed to know about, for instance \u201cwww.todayifoundout.com\u201d, from the other stuff which is more service oriented.\u00a0 Basically, he didn\u2019t want to have to worry about knowing what service the particular website was using at a particular link when creating a link in a web page. \u201c\/\/\u201d seemed natural, as it would to anyone who\u2019s used Unix based systems.\u00a0 In retrospect though, this was not at all necessary, so the \u201c\/\/\u201d are essentially pointless.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## Click Here to Read About the First Website Ever and the Development of the Web Text Version The \u201c\/\/\u201d forward slashes in any web address actually serve no real purpose according to Berners-Lee.\u00a0 He only put them in because \u201cit seemed like a good idea at the time.\u201d\u00a0 He wanted a way to separate the part the web server [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[1093,1094],"class_list":["post-4011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-forward-slashes","tag-web-address-structure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4011"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6968,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011\/revisions\/6968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}