[reaperducer]

This makes me remember that my primary way of finding new things on the web back in middle school was just typing educated guess urls in until I found something.

It was nice back in the early days when you wanted U.S. state government information, you could almost always enter something like http://state.xx.us and get the state's home page, then explore from there. (Where xx was the state abbreviation.)

Cities were very often http://city.state.xx.us.

Now many (most?) states have vanity URLs, and the cities are worse. I think Chicago's changed its URL at least three times.