Imagine that in the 90s, a "URLs only" web took off -- not too hard to envision, really, considering how many sites there were that were giant slabs of sliced images with hotspots for links between, or how Sun was pushing the vision of URLs essentially indexing Java client apps.
If that had ended up as the dominant paradigm... Google (or a search engine like it) wouldn't exist.
A URLs-only web, one that sees the browser as nothing more than The VM That Lived™, is actually the more limited vision.
If that had ended up as the dominant paradigm... Google (or a search engine like it) wouldn't exist.
A URLs-only web, one that sees the browser as nothing more than The VM That Lived™, is actually the more limited vision.