Re:Every search bar looks like a URL bar to users
by 8ytecoder on Thursday October 14, 2021 @01:43PM
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Why can't we teach this in schools? My high school curriculum covered the basics of the UI elements - window, menu bar, URL and such - in addition to OpenOffice and the basics about internet (this was 1998)
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Re:Every search bar looks like a URL bar to users
by jhanschoo on Thursday October 14, 2021 @09:10PM
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Why should the Internet be accessible only to people who have undergone a high school curriculum that teaches it? That already excludes a large portion of the population.
Re:Every search bar looks like a URL bar to users
by krater23 on Friday October 15, 2021 @12:12AM
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Why exactly should the interrnet accessible for all people at all? When you are too lazy or dumb to use a browser like it was in 2000, you will too think that facebook or insta are the internet. Thats the problem on today's internet. It's too accessible for too many ignorant people.
Re:Every search bar looks like a URL bar to users
by jhanschoo on Friday October 15, 2021 @12:38AM
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I don't see the point of your argument. I don't see any reason for excluding people who "think that facebook or insta are the internet" from it. If you desperately require more powerful tools to support the way you use the internet then there are powerful tools available; why use the lowest-common-denominator tool that is the browser?
I couldn't resist adapting your argument for food:
Why exactly should food be accessible for all people at all? When you are too lazy or dumb to grow your own food like it was before the coming of Jesus, you will think that McD's is the agriculture industry. That's the problem with today's agriculture. It's too accessible for too many ignorant people.
Re:Every search bar looks like a URL bar to users
by solveit on Thursday October 14, 2021 @02:47PM
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To a first approximation, school can't teach anything. Most of your high school class don't remember what DNS is.
Re:Every search bar looks like a URL bar to users
by HWR_14 on Thursday October 14, 2021 @03:03PM
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DNS? Is that a high school level subject?
Re:Every search bar looks like a URL bar to users
by solveit on Thursday October 14, 2021 @04:29PM
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I was going to say something about how you needed to know what DNS is to know how URLs work and how all this is easily teachable at the high school level, but I realized I'm just out of touch. Amend my comment to say that the previous poster's classmates can't tell apart a search bar and a URL bar either.
Re:Every search bar looks like a URL bar to users
by HWR_14 on Thursday October 14, 2021 @08:41PM
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I also question if you need to know what DNS is to know how URLs work. "This name is how your computer finds the website you are looking for" is sufficient for some level of knowing what a URL is and how it works.
And URLs, canonically, don't require DNS to function.