Re:Google wants to get rid of URLs but doesn’t know what to ...
by krapp on Thursday September 06, 2018 @02:27PM
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>URLs are useless for normal people, normal people don't know what URLs are.
This is a truism, but I'm not certain it's true. Is there actual data to back this up? What definition of "normal" is being used here.. the average person using the internet, or non-technically trained people?
The web has been around for decades now, and everyone including my nearly 70 year old mother uses it, and URLs have been pretty ubiquitous for a long time. Not knowing what a URL is seems about as likely as not knowing what a TV channel is, or that they have a bank account number.
It seems more likely to me that normal people do know what they are, but find avoiding them to be more convenient than using them.
This is a truism, but I'm not certain it's true. Is there actual data to back this up? What definition of "normal" is being used here.. the average person using the internet, or non-technically trained people?
The web has been around for decades now, and everyone including my nearly 70 year old mother uses it, and URLs have been pretty ubiquitous for a long time. Not knowing what a URL is seems about as likely as not knowing what a TV channel is, or that they have a bank account number.
It seems more likely to me that normal people do know what they are, but find avoiding them to be more convenient than using them.