<story><title>Tim Berners-Lee: Cool URIs don&apos;t change (1998)</title><url>http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>smanek</author><text>Funny to think how &apos;document based&apos; the web was back then. The concept of webapps must have been completely foreign. I&apos;ll bet he &lt;i&gt;really&lt;/i&gt; hates URL shorteners.&lt;p&gt;Interestingly, the examples he gave of good URIs (e.g., &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/1998/nsf9814/nsf9814.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/1998/nsf9814/nsf9814.htm&lt;/a&gt;) are still working 12 years later, while the bad ones are broken (e.g., &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/pubsys/browser/odbrowse.pl&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/pubsys/browser/odbrowse.pl&lt;/a&gt;).</text></comment>
<story><title>Tim Berners-Lee: Cool URIs don&apos;t change (1998)</title><url>http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>radagaisus</author><text>I really like the historical note: &quot;Historical note: At the end of the 20th century when this was written, &quot;cool&quot; was an epithet of approval particularly among young, indicating trendiness, quality, or appropriateness. In the rush to stake our DNS territory involved the choice of domain name and URI path were sometimes directed more toward apparent &quot;coolness&quot; than toward usefulness or longevity. This note is an attempt to redirect the energy behind the quest for coolness.&quot;</text></comment>