i still think dns names should have been reversed (the tld should have been first, at the "top")

@trwnh if anything java proved that one could just do it and have everyone momentarily follow along. its inspiring

@alice we had a thing going with usenet, where did we go wrong

@trwnh it must be the url

@alice timbl's biggest regret

@trwnh I think we've got them the right way round - URL bar autocompletion wouldn't work anywhere near as well if we started with the TLD.

@FenTiger why not?

@trwnh I was thinking that if we started typing at the TLD end, it would take longer before we reached the point where the browser could show a useful completion.

This doesn't make sense, though, because the browser can just match on a substring anywhere in the URL.

There I go again, posting rubbish on the Internet. One of these days I'll learn