How did slashes become the standard path separators for URLs?
10th February 2012
My answer to How did slashes become the standard path separators for URLs? on Quora
I’m going to take an educated guess and say it’s because of unix file system conventions. Early web servers mapped the URL to a path on disk inside the document root—this is still how most static sites work today.
More recent articles
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is an LLM that can code well that runs on my Mac - 12th November 2024
- Visualizing local election results with Datasette, Observable and MapLibre GL - 9th November 2024
- Project: VERDAD - tracking misinformation in radio broadcasts using Gemini 1.5 - 7th November 2024