Originally, the URL was going to be an implementation detail that the browser wasn't meant to expose to the user, but the first browsers were experimental—made by and for programmers—so they exposed the address bar, and nobody has ever come up with anything better since.https://twitter.com/arstechnica/status/1037343353430581253 …
I think that's a misleading characterization. Cloudflare would qualify as that. It's a matter of changing what addresses mean, not whether resources have addresses.
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"Addresses...would disappear" is not a thing that has happened.
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In the sense of www\.myisp\.com/~mycoolhandle being replaced by domains, vhosting, vps availability to ordinary people, the old kind kinda did disappear.
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Try to imagine _no_ address bar. No well defined boundary even between websites. Just a massive...space that exists amorphously somewhere out there.
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Yes. It sounds really naive and incompatible with an adversarial world without strong authorities deemed benevolent..
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So we come back to what I tweeted yesterday:https://twitter.com/emilyst/status/1037584019494322176 …
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In a way it sounds more like p2p/torrent resource identifiers.
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That's still an address.
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