In retrospect this cool urls don't change ideology might have been net negative. Instead of trying to fight the inevitably that content moves around and gets oc

In retrospect this cool urls don't change ideology might have been net negative. Instead of trying to fight the inevitably that content moves around and gets occasionally lost, it could have been better to embrace the ephemerality; promote mirroring and storing local copies. "Cool URLs are mirrorable" Notably WARC format was developed only 10 years after that famous essay, and there are lot of other things that could have been done to make mirroring proper first class citizen in web.