Yes. Many of the NYC.gov websites are run on a "enterprise CMS" that imposes long URLs (name of the CMS starts with an "I"... ends with a "woven").
I understand that the purpose of this submission was to poke fun at NYC gov't and their seemingly inability to adapt to current-day tech standards. In a lot of cases this is valid criticism. However, for the past few year, nyc has made some pretty cool initiatives to make data and services it support more open and available.
Someone else mentioned the nyc data feeds which is a good example. There are a bunch of twitter accounts (like @311nyc) that are actually useful. Another cool use of data is: http://gis.nyc.gov/doitt/nycitymap/ (geo map search, great for looking up official city building info).
Even with some flaws (and many inefficiencies), we should commend NYC for not treating tech only as "necessary overhead" as most other cities do. IMO, NYC is second only to SanFran when it comes to being progressive on tech (SanFran has a policy to look OOS first for any new project which is great).
BTW, I do not work for the city but I interact with many agency IT groups via work.
I understand that the purpose of this submission was to poke fun at NYC gov't and their seemingly inability to adapt to current-day tech standards. In a lot of cases this is valid criticism. However, for the past few year, nyc has made some pretty cool initiatives to make data and services it support more open and available. Someone else mentioned the nyc data feeds which is a good example. There are a bunch of twitter accounts (like @311nyc) that are actually useful. Another cool use of data is: http://gis.nyc.gov/doitt/nycitymap/ (geo map search, great for looking up official city building info).
Even with some flaws (and many inefficiencies), we should commend NYC for not treating tech only as "necessary overhead" as most other cities do. IMO, NYC is second only to SanFran when it comes to being progressive on tech (SanFran has a policy to look OOS first for any new project which is great).
BTW, I do not work for the city but I interact with many agency IT groups via work.