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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 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>

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/example/www/path/to/name</code></big> instead of <big><code><nowiki>http://www.example.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>

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 slashes throughout, as in: <big><code>http:com/example/www/path/to/name</code></big> instead of <big><code><nowiki>http://www.example.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 ==