I do the same thing, and high school was long time ago for me. As for typing URLs, I do that, too, but autocompletion takes over after one or two characters. E

I do the same thing, and high school was long time ago for me. As for typing URLs, I do that, too, but autocompletion takes over after one or two characters. E.g., 'ne' suffices to get me to the HN front page. Navigation for me is pretty much all search or autocomplete, followed by normal link following. Except for a couple of bookmarklets, I do not use bookmarks. Back in the nineties, I used bookmarks a lot. Once in a while, I will manually change a URL already in the location bar or paste one in and modify it. However, I do look at URLs a lot. They often provide valuable navigational clues. And I appreciate well-structured URLs, such as the readwrite.com ones you posted, and I scorn the opaque numerical messes that some content management systems generate. I agree with the article.