Re:The History of the URL: Path, Fragment, Query, and Auth
by utopcell on Monday July 18, 2016 @07:09PM
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This is a well-written article, but I find this criticism of URLs a bit exaggerated. We needed to reach an agreement on URL structure and there is little point in changing that now. Hardly anyone would abandon English for the unambiguous Lojban (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban) for example.
As for non-expiring identifiers to pages/content, the 'expired' URLs are as good identifiers as anything, considering URL redirects exist.
I did find this tidbit of information quite intriguing: the creator of the hierarchical file system attributes his creation to a two hour conversation he had with Albert Einstein in 1952!
Re:The History of the URL: Path, Fragment, Query, and Auth
by zackbloom on Monday July 18, 2016 @07:15PM
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I'm sorry you read it as criticism, it actually wasn't my intent to criticize our current URL system. I think it's a valuable system which has enabled the Internet as we know it.
As for non-expiring identifiers to pages/content, the 'expired' URLs are as good identifiers as anything, considering URL redirects exist.
I did find this tidbit of information quite intriguing: the creator of the hierarchical file system attributes his creation to a two hour conversation he had with Albert Einstein in 1952!