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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?
As a result, many Web servers exposed user-provided Web content using the same path: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/howto/public_html.html
Universities have continued using that convention, probably because professors have accounts (and thus URLs) for decades.