[cxr]

I don't think that takes like this one that yes-and URLs as a narrowly technological concern help anything. I'd argue it actually does more harm than good.

> URL is a central concept in web browsing.

Two responses, depending on one's mood:

1. So?

2. Resource identifiers—which URLs are—are a central concept to information science, scholarship, and society and culture.

Aside from the (admittedly often irrational) tendency of some non-technical people to strike a pose of helplessness,* you also end up with technical people making comments like this one: generally taking the stance that it's not too hard to pick this stuff up, with the goal that non-technical people will end up with an appreciation/conception of a URL's technological bones that at least approximately matches the informed mental model of the technical person who is speaking—and who themselves doesn't stop to consider what they themselves have got wrong and are possibly continuing to do wrong by society wrt their role in (negatively) shaping the information architecture of the world around them.

* See <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38277553>