I love tech history, and this writeup on the history of the URL is a great retrospective (I even learned a couple of new things, and also enjoyed some great callouts to protocols and systems I haven’t thought about in a long time). https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-history-of-the-url/
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@darkuncle It is undeniable that if Jon had not prematurely died the evolution of the domain system could have been very different.
PDP-11s! Acoustic couplers! Bang paths! Jon Postel asserting “it is extremely unlikely that any new TLDs will be created”! Zork! Sun Microsystems! Berkeley Unix! Lots of good history in here folks