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== History ==

== History ==

The URL was first created in 1994<ref name="www">[http://www.w3.org/Addressing/URL/url-spec.txt w3.org]URL specifications</ref> by [[Tim Berners-Lee]] and the [[IETF|Internet Engineering Task Force]]'s URI Working Group.<ref name="ietf">[http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt ietf.org]RFC 1738</ref>

The URL was first created in the year 1994 <ref name="www">[http://www.w3.org/Addressing/URL/url-spec.txt w3.org]URL specifications</ref> by Tim Berners-Lee and the URI working group of the Internet Engineering Task Force<ref name="ietf">[http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt ietf.org]RFC 1738</ref>. Berners Lee had earlier used dots to separate the parts of the domain name inside URLs but he then regretted it and wished that he had used slashes throughout. For instance, he proposed that it is better to use <big><code>http:com/sample/www/path/to/name</code></big> instead of <big><code><nowiki>http://www.sample.com/path/to/name</nowiki></code></big> <ref>[http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/FAQ#etc w3.org] World Wide Web </ref>. Twenty years after creating the URL, Tim Berners-Lee in an interview to Times newspaper also held a light apology for using the two forward slashes (//) before the domain name. <ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8306631.stm news.bbc.co.uk]</ref>

 

Berners-Lee originally designed the URL to have the domain name separated by dots, but later regretted it, wishing he had designed the URL to be separated by slashed throughout, as in: <big><code>http:com/sample/www/path/to/name</code></big> instead of <big><code><nowiki>http://www.sample.com/path/to/name</nowiki></code></big>. <ref>[http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/FAQ#etc w3.org] World Wide Web </ref> Twenty years after creating the URL, Tim Berners-Lee, in an interview with Times, went so far as to apologize for using the two forward slashes (//) following the colon separator.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8306631.stm news.bbc.co.uk]</ref>

 

== Types of URL ==

== Types of URL ==