But people are used to them and everyone understands it.
No URL - no decentralized web.
I understand why Google wants to place itself as the key search and directory for the web. I remember AOL Keywords 'go to www.webvan.com, AOL keyword : webvan', the ads would say on the radio.
But the web is just a bunch of content hooked together with URLs. Heck, websites are just a bunch of content hooked together with URLs.
I already hate sites that are not linkable or discoverable due to excessive postback-ing and unbookmarkable deep results.
I will always seek out a browser that displays the URL. There are ways to defeat phishing without obscuring the URL.
The interesting thing about phone numbers is that they're not much longer than IP (IPv4) addresses; I wonder what it would be like if DNS either hadn't been invented, or was introduced only after the Internet had grown significantly. Would everyone have used IP addresses just as easily as they do domain names today?
Then there's also physical addresses, which have been around even before phones, and from the point of view of computer science, they would be considered a horrible "ugly" mess, yet people also seem to have no problems dealing with them in their daily lives.
But the important thing is, how often do you manually type in URLs? The URL is still there if you need to modify it or copy it or manually typeit in, it just isn't displayed prominently at the top of the screen. What are you actually losing?
Phone numbers suck and are a usability nightmare.
But people are used to them and everyone understands it.
No URL - no decentralized web.
I understand why Google wants to place itself as the key search and directory for the web. I remember AOL Keywords 'go to www.webvan.com, AOL keyword : webvan', the ads would say on the radio.
But the web is just a bunch of content hooked together with URLs. Heck, websites are just a bunch of content hooked together with URLs.
I already hate sites that are not linkable or discoverable due to excessive postback-ing and unbookmarkable deep results.
I will always seek out a browser that displays the URL. There are ways to defeat phishing without obscuring the URL.