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0 pointsubernostrum16y ago0 comments

Charles Miller today commented on this:

http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2010/02/12/two_steps_forward_tw...

And mentioned his own anecdote:

http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2003/10/09/the_internet_and_und...

Choice quote:

URLs. Bookmarks. Changing your homepage. All of these things were voodoo.

As he points out, claims that people are more "savvy" today than they were then probably don't hold up; if anything, users back then probably were more knowledgeable on average, simply by virtue of even having Internet access.

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pyre16y ago· 1 in thread

My comment wasn't the people should know about the bookmarking system, just that the concept of the bookmarking system is less complex to people than the concept of URLs and the location/address bar.

whatusername16y ago

Isn't that something Chrome / Safari / Opera are doing well now?

Top Sites is going to show facebook as the first link - in a big box called facebook, as soon as they open their browser..

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