The Url bar never stopped being useful to me. The problem is with bad Urls, not the idea or execution. The trend towards friendly urls is getting stronger, as

The Url bar never stopped being useful to me. The problem is with bad Urls, not the idea or execution. The trend towards friendly urls is getting stronger, as is the trend away from flash sites and other fat and crummy navigation tools. The Url is the foundation of the hyperlink, and the hyperlink is the innovation that glues the entire WWW together.