Thomas Paine: Common Sense (1776)

Re:Thomas Paine: Common Sense (1776) by rkuerzinger on Sunday June 30, 2013 @04:17AM (#5965097)

hmmmm, am I the only one who's totally annoyed by that URL path? Seriously, what's the point in abbreviating to "/comsense.htm"?

I know that's not a big deal, but being a fan of ... well, I'd say "semantic URLs" this always hits me square in my face! Why not use "/commonsense.htm" or "/common_sense.htm"?

And after looking at http://www.constitution.org/tp it gets even worse ("/amercrisis.htm" etc.)

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Re:Thomas Paine: Common Sense (1776) by kijin on Sunday June 30, 2013 @04:29AM (#5965122)

Some of those files may have been named during the days of DOS 8+3 filename limit. Better keep an old filename than break a lot of links.

Also, some people who first learned computing in the DOS era keep using shortened filenames out of habit, even if it's not always capped at 8 chars. (The site seems to have several files whose names have been abbreviated to 9 chars.)

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