Quotes About URLs

But despite the universality of URLs, we often forget that they're not just a handy way to address network resources. They're also valuable communication tools.

Thanks to our friends at the dot-ME Registry, WordPress is able to offer one of the shortest and most effective URLs available today.

I'd heard comedians working MySpace into their routines and giving out their URLs as early as 2004.

URLs don't even need to make sense to human eyes. But we humans prefer nice-looking URLs, like

But despite the universality of URLs, we often forget that they're not just a handy way to address network resources. They're also valuable communication tools.

Why shouldn't you use numeric ids in your URLs? First, your competitors can see just how many auctions you create. Numeric consecutive ids also allow people to write automated spiders to steal your content. It's a window into your database. And finally, words in URLs just look better. (Google "German tank problem" to learn about how serial numbers on German tanks helped the allies win World War II.)