Question

Websites whose URL’s contain tildes (~) are usually published by the government. TRUE or FALSE.

Answer 1

False, anyone who makes a website could use a tilde to signify a file name.

Answer 2

Answer:

False

Explanation:

The use of tildes( ~ ) generally dates back to the early days of the web-development, when most web servers ran on Unix.

A user's home directory on Unix-like operating systems traditionally has been represented by a tilde. A home directory, also called a login directory, is the directory that serves as the repository for a user's personal files, directories and programs, and it is the directory a user is first in after logging into the system.

In the early days of the web most websites used the (~) it wasn't exclusive to governments, it was used by Universities, Private Organisations, NGOs, Governments and Normal Individuals.

In the Unix world, systems supported multiple users, with each user having their own unique home directory. If you need to go to your own home directory, you input [cd ~]. If you want to go to some other user's home for example KittmarisLorrox's home directory, that would be cd~KittmarisLorrox

So when people started putting up web servers, they would generally let every user in the system have their own web space, which was accessible from the root of the web-server by using " ~username ".

If a user wants to change its current directory (i.e., the directory in which it is currently working) from any location on the system to its home directory, it can do so by using the cd (i.e., change directory) command with a tilde as an argument (i.e., input), i.e.,  cd ~

For example, the tilde in the URL http://www.blueswiift.com/~iehonor/lady/ means that the directory iehonor is an individual account on the website-hosting server that has a domain name of blueswiift.com.