Wednesday, December 04, 2002
I've realized that Web browser bookmarks are not all that essential nowadays. Remember back when everyone had URLs like http://www1.sbf3.acct.umich.edu/db/users/p/po/postlethwait/? Now that it's become so much easier for commoners to reg domain names, most of those mouthfuls have been reduced to http://www.howdy.com/. Frankly, I feel silly bookmarking a site like that when I can (thanks to IE's autoresolve/autocomplete features) just type "howdy" in the location bar and get where I want to go. More and more these days, I find myself using cyber bookmarks the same way I use real ones: to mark a page or a portion of a page I was reading when I left off.
