RE: Symbolic vs Numeric identifiers (was Re: URL internationalization!)

Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu> Tue, 04 March 1997 19:06 UTC

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Date: Tue, 04 Mar 1997 13:33:28 -0500
From: Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
To: Fisher Mark <FisherM@exch1.indy.tce.com>
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Subject: RE: Symbolic vs Numeric identifiers (was Re: URL internationalization!)
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On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, Fisher Mark wrote:
> 
> BTW, does anyone know if the original CERN <URL:http://info.cern.ch/>
> Web started out by using meaningless URLs?  (I only started on the Web

I seem to remember them being long, but meaningful. Then again, I also 
seem to remember having heard these exact same arguments in the same 
forms for the past five years, so what do I know :-)

Simon

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