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Re:Cool URIs don't change. by dredmorbius on Monday June 25, 2012 @11:31AM (#4156939)
The first URLs were short and sweet.

HTML, and server paths / CGIs were largely hand-coded and short.

The URI explosion occurred in the late 1990s / early aughts for the most part with Java and Microsoft entering the fray from my recollection.

Re:Cool URIs don't change. by iy56 on Monday June 25, 2012 @01:38PM (#4157583)
So like he said, over a decade ago.