URNs were supposed to solve that problem by separating the identity of the thing from the location of the thing. But they never became popular and then link sh

URNs were supposed to solve that problem by separating the identity of the thing from the location of the thing. But they never became popular and then link shorteners reimplemented the idea, badly. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Name https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Name