I Forgot My Mantra is Scott Jackson's webtumblespacelog.

Blog URLs

In a world of BLOG/?p=12345&dif=388#3820&283 and BLOG/2009/09/24/0813/atmyhouse/eatingpie/title-of-the-blog-post-in-the-url-for-the-best-seo, I think there’s something kinda quaint and just a little bit nostalgic about how Paul Graham names the URLs for his essays. It’s just

http://paulgraham.com/something.html

So, yes, I guess I define “nostalgic” as “hard to maintain over time and not really organised at all.” Just like everything on the internet in the late ’90s.

I’m going to go look at some fire GIFs on a Geocities page now.