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		TheIndieBuilder on Sept 1, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Linkpreview, see how your sites looks in ... To be fair, even Tim Berners Lee doesn't understand what the :// is for and has apologised for adding it.

9dev on Sept 1, 2024 [–]

Which would be even more of a reason to standardise an input field that handles web addresses as humans enter them, not machines prefer them. Yet, here we are.

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