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posted by Jason Kottke  ·  gift link

URLs are for people, not computers

You should design URLs for people because they are important UI elements.

URLs can contain information about the page contents before they are even clicked. This is very advantageous in some communication mediums, such as chats, IMs, tweets, emails and forums.

(via hacker news)