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URLs are addresses. For web, we messed up and URLs became part of the UI. It shouldn't be necessary to use URLs in most cases though. e.g. imagine using IMAP URLs to read your email.


Man, I'd love to be able to link to individual emails from my calendar.

Having entries like the following in my calendar app would be amazing:

"Company event on <date>, for details see linked email"


If we remembered there was more to the "web" than HTTP, this would be a thing.

I remember Tim had a diagram that showed "links" between all different systems, all addressable by URI/URL.




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