Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.
Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.
Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.
Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.
I find that there always a wavy line in the URL before people’s name in its profile web page.Such as this webpage:http://cg.cs.tsinghua.edu.cn/people/~taochen/
There is a ‘~’ before name ‘taochen’.
What is the significance of it?A rule or a habit?
The tilde (~) often indicates a users home directory (in the Unix world). So when an educational institution wants to signify webpages that are generated in more or less non-controlled ways, a tilde is a good way to tell the open Internet, “hey, this website is the creation of someone that doesn’t own this whole domain”. Or, “this is their home webpage”.
And to answer part two… it is a best practice, not a rule.