: Why do URLs of personal pages use the pattern: /~name? I've seen several research lab/universities websites that have a webpage for each researcher (in which there is kind of a CV + links to

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I've seen several research lab/universities websites that have a webpage for each researcher (in which there is kind of a CV + links to personal content, etc.). URLs of these pages are named after following pattern: example.com/~name. (e.g. example.com/~doe and example.com/~mustermann for John Doe and Erika Mustermann, respectively).

My question is: why is there a ~ before name? Is it related to GNU/Linux ~ home folder? Is there a convention for that?

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