SEO Bullshit: Mimicking a file system in URIs

Way back in the WWW’s early Jurassic, micro computer based Web development tools sneakily begun poisoning the formerly ideal world of the Internet. All of a sudden we saw ‘.htm’ URIs, because CP/M and later on PC-DOS file extensions were limited to 3 characters. Truncating the ‘language’ part of HTML was bad enough. Actually, fucking with well established naming conventions wasn’t just a malady, but a symptom of a worse world wide pandemic.

Unfortunately, in order to bring Web publishing to the mere mortals (folks who could afford a micro computer), software developers invented DOS-like restrictions the Web wasn’t designed for. Web design tools maintained files on DOS file systems. FTP clients managed to convert backslashes originating from DOS file systems to slashes on UNIX servers,... [View Full Article]