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by russellbeattie
2293 days ago
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I love articles like this, in part because they remind me of the early 90s when I first started reading about this stuff and it all seemed arcane and magical. [1] I remember dismissing the "World Wide Web" because my 80286-based IBM PC I used at college in 1993 couldn't run a graphical web browser (that I knew of) so I compared the terminal versions of a web browser to Gopher and determined the latter was far superior - it had more content and was much cleaner to use in a terminal. The history of the Internet and Web definitely would have been soooo different had URLs been formatted like "http:com/example/foo/bar/baz" for sure. It's so much cleaner and sensical. Part of the mystique of "foo.com" is that it somehow seems completely different from "bar.org". Not sure why, but it just is. Just a side note: DOS and Windows using \ instead of / is annoying and has been annoying for nearly 40 years and I don't ever think I'll ever find it not annoying. You'd think 4 decades would be enough time, but it still bugs me. 1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_Internet_User's_Guide_... |
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