I have noticed that educational institutions (.edu in the US, .ac in the UK) usually have staff pages in the format /~[name].
I don't think I have seen this elsewhere. Is there a reason?
It’s the Unix convention (shell expansion) for a the path to a user’s home directory: <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Tilde-Expansion.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Tilde-Exp...</a><p>As a result, many Web servers exposed user-provided Web content using the same path: <a href="https://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/howto/public_html.html" rel="nofollow">https://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/howto/public_html.html</a><p>Universities have continued using that convention, probably because professors have accounts (and thus URLs) for decades.