Why Do We STILL Have Ugly URLs?

Look at this (asp) monstrosity!!

http://www.jhm.org/ME2/Sites/dirmod.asp?sid=&type=
gen&mod=Core+Pages&gid=A6CD4967199A42D9B65B1B08851C402B&SiteID=
8112722C039B4E508F0AB8552B898895

Who spec’d this site? Oh wait, that assumes someone knew what they were doing and didn’t simply leave all decisions to programmers.

When I worked at Boeing 10 years ago, we developed a simple system to “marry” human-readable URLs (in this case, something like http://www.jhm.org/about/pastor_hagee.html) to the database gibberish reflected above. TEN years ago! And how long has TinyURL and SnipURL been around? Gads. The more we go forward we actually go backward?

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One Response to Why Do We STILL Have Ugly URLs?

  1. Pingback: Editorial Board Transparency (And Tech Incompetence) « WiredPen

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