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RE: Symbolic vs Numeric identifiers (was Re: URL internationalization!)

From: Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 13:33:28 -0500 (EST)
To: Fisher Mark <FisherM@exch1.indy.tce.com>
Cc: "'mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch'" <mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch>, "'gtn@ebt.com'" <gtn@ebt.com>, "'liberte@ncsa.uiuc.edu'" <liberte@ncsa.uiuc.edu>, "'gjw@wnetc.com'" <gjw@wnetc.com>, "'uri@Bunyip.Com'" <uri@bunyip.com>
Message-Id: <Pine.SUN.3.91.970304133104.17576F-100000@tipper.oit.unc.edu> 
On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, Fisher Mark wrote:
> 
> BTW, does anyone know if the original CERN <URL:http://info.cern.ch/>
> Web started out by using meaningless URLs?  (I only started on the Web

I seem to remember them being long, but meaningful. Then again, I also 
seem to remember having heard these exact same arguments in the same 
forms for the past five years, so what do I know :-)

Simon

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