Ask HN: Queryparams have a starting? and then and as seperator..why?

&gt; It was Marc Andreessen who suggested our current method based on what he had already implemented in Mosaic...<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eager.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;the-history-of-the-url-path-fragment-query-auth&#x2F;#query-params" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eager.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;the-history-of-the-url-path-fragment-q...</a>

I think &amp; is a valid character for path names. You probably need the ? to know the query has begun.