[9604] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
It's the gnomes (Was: Re: URL Expansion proposal)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William F. Hammond)
Sun Jan 14 16:12:20 1996
From: "William F. Hammond" <hammond@csc.albany.edu>
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 15:59:57 -0500 (EST)
To: www-talk@w3.org
Cc: bearheart@bearnet.com
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
Previously on www-talk@w3.org:
: >grandpa to understand what, in the end, are UNIX file system conventions.
:
: What's unixish about "http://www.yahoo.com/"? I'm confused here.
Ummm... would "http:\www.yahoo.com\" be less Unix-ish. 8-))
Rather than attribute URL syntax to the Unix masters perhaps one
should point to the "gnomes of Zurich" (cf. Adam Smith's "The
Money Game" ca. 1968). 8-)
: I don't see that there's any problem to be solved here. Businesses
: appear perfectly happy to put the technical-looking "http://www.foo.com/"
: in their ads, and Ma & Pa Kettle seem perfectly willing to type it into
: their Cray-VII Notebook computers. Where's the problem?
Haven't I seen a billboard both in Calfornia and in New York with
nothing but the URL for a major bank? Clearly, URLs have become
status symbols.
:-)
-- Bill
