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> "I designed it this way for autocomplete. My vision at the time was that people would want to do autocomplete or they might want to just type part of the doma
by mimsee 6y ago
> "I designed it this way for autocomplete. My vision at the time was that people would want to do autocomplete or they might want to just type part of the domain name and have it completed in a search list of the local environment."
> "Imagine if we were to type “com.” and then wait for autocomplete. Out of 160 million choices, there would be a pretty long pull-down menu."
What an amazing and unexpected reason, but I love it.
- kyuudou 6y agoI thought the same myself although I am a bit suspicious he made up this reason in hindsight. Whatever the truth is, the result is better than Berners-Lee's idea, I think.
- JdeBP 6y agoWhat's presented here by the interviewer is not actually what M. Berners-Lee's idea was. Here's what M. Berners-Lee actually said: * http://impactlab.net/2006/03/25/interview-with-tim-berners-lee/ http://impactlab.net/2006/03/25/interview-with-tim-berners-l...
- JdeBP 6y agoThis is the point where old hands mention JANET. (-: * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24005111 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24005111