Showing posts with label on-the-importance-of-names. Show all posts
Showing posts with label on-the-importance-of-names. Show all posts
Monday, August 10, 2009
Thursday, May 14, 2009
On URL redirectors
Back in the day, the address resolution layer of the Internet was DNS. DNS was an open, unified, distributed, redundant, highly-engineered address resolution mechanism which hid opaque identifiers like 209.131.36.158 under the hood of nice human-readable names like www.yahoo.com. Now we have a fragmented pile of proprietary, centralized, hacked-together address resolution mechanisms which replace a nice URL like freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/modest-proposal-three-strikes-print with the opaque string bit.ly/4p3vL. Progress!
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