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I wouldn't be surprised if they are eventually replaced for a system that's more of a search than anything. There's no need to replace anything. Nobody[1] uses
by SoftwareMaven 11y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if they are eventually replaced for a system that's more of a search than anything.
There's no need to replace anything. Nobody[1] uses domain names any more to browse the web. That's what Google, the default browser home page, and the omni-bar is for. I don't know a single non-web-developer who uses domain names. Everybody just drops "facebook" or "google"(?!) in the search box that shows up when the browser opens.
1. Well, nobody except for a rounding error number of people who hang out in places like HN.
- vacri 11y agoI don't know a single non-web-developer who uses domain names I get your point about the general public, but there is more to the internet and domain names than web browsing :)
- MichaelGG 11y agoHell I'm a developer and sorta technical and I can never remember the URL/domain to login to Office 365. So I end up using Google and trying to find a reasonable-looking result and then check for a cert that looks right.
- bad_user 11y agoBut that's only because Microsoft made it so damn hard to find anything related to Office 365.
- sgc 11y agoAnd that is why Chrome did away with the bookmark pane. What people do today is largely determined by their choice of browser. I use FF and bookmark my login urls. We are discussing the problems of domain names--part of the basic infrastructure of modern communication for the entire world--in light of the fallout from what was nothing but a calculated decision to increase market share by a single company, which given the history of ICANN, is apparently more influential than most governments of the world, and of the G7, on this point. That should be a wake up call.
- rhplus 11y agohttps://www.office.com https://www.office.com gets you to the main landing page.
- MichaelGG 11y agoIt's actually faster to Google and follow the link than to deal with the convoluted system on Office.com.
- TheLoneWolfling 11y agoI do, but I suppose I'm included in that rounding error. (It drives everyone else who's used my laptop for anything crazy - typing something in the address bar only searches my history / bookmarks, no remote communication. If you want to search, use the search bar.) Though, that being said, I find myself only rarely typing ULs. More of the time the browser is pulling the URL from bookmarks / history.
- Snesker 11y agoI have firefox configured to search just my history and even that gets cripplingly slow. I'm incessantly frustrated by the preposterous need for resources of web browsers.