Why Urls Won't Die

Matthew Lew
Matthew Lew
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    The Uniform Resource Locator has been the user-interface lingua franca of the internet for decades. A browser window just wouldn’t look right without it up there at the top. But as the web has matured into a GUI-driven, mobile-first, app-serving consumer operating system in its own right, the URL stubbornly persists as an arcane, command-line-esque relic of the internet’s ultra-geeky origins. Why?

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    Medium Art Direction: Indhira Rojas
    Designer: Matthew Lew
    Author: John Palvus
    Published: March 9, 2015

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