Cool URIs don’t change
Added to The Forgotten Web: . Historical publication details follow.
1998 · web architecture · original online
Tim Berners-Lee’s note on why web addresses should be designed to last.
WHY IT STILL MATTERSThe whole project sits on this idea: links are promises, and the human web rots when those promises break.
Best opened as a reminder that persistence was once treated as infrastructure, not nostalgia.