Then URLs came along, and messed everything up. URLs look *weird* because they have two hierarchies, plus a scheme: Outward through the network (Most->Least Specific): subdomain . stanford . edu Inward through a filesystem (Least->Most Specific): /path/inside/server Scheme: https://
Burners-Lee later said that he regrets the domain name order, wishing it followed the filesystem structure. Still the opposite of postal-style, but at least we wouldn’t have two hierarchies! To read more, check out this interview with the British Computer Society: www.bcs.org/articles-opi...
I never noticed this before and now I can’t unsee it. Why did you do this? 😭😭😂