Obviously this is a silly example, but I really do remember when they would write out full urls with paths like 3 directories deep in magazines and newspapers expecting you to manually enter those urls and visit whatever site. I hated that shit in the early days of the internet in grade school. “http://www.theentireforty-ninecharacterlongnameofthecompany.com/marketingadvertisements/newspapertimes/landingpage79fad5c21e.html” (don’t click that link… i just made it up. It doesn’t go anywhere.) I could barely type but now I have to get every character correct or I might accidentally end up on a black market website or porn somehow (where my fellow Whitehouse dot com victims at?). QR codes and smartphones really are godsend for print media internet ads.
P.S. I told you it didn’t go anywhere. You feel better now?
P.P.S. Apparently Whitehouse dot com still functions but is no longer porn. It’s some election betting thing now? Idk.
My first memory of being told to go to a web address was in 4th grade. My teacher wrote a fairly long URL on the board as something those of us who had internet at home could go look at about the lesson she was talking about. So we were expected to write this URL down on paper, and then later type it into a computer. This very slightly predates AOL keywords.
I hope none of had dyslexia or similar…
Oh don’t worry it was 1994 none of us had internet at home anyway. The school didn’t even have an internet connection in those days.
It took awhile before engineers also became UX people and were like “ok, but let’s start the project from an end user’s point of view.”
Unfortunately soon after that, marketers took over as the bosses of the UX people and were like “ok, let’s start this from a ‘how do we get more people clicking the buy now button’ point of view.”
You could use ` to make that URL an inline code block and thus not clickable. `like this` to look
like thisSeemed more fun this way
I clicked that link
The one in the newspaper? Me too
Plot twist: the job is specifically for a transcriber/translator and requires high level of accuracy.
I could totally see this as being a thing back in the day before everyone was walking around with a supercomputer in their pocket capable of OCR.
Somebody correct me, but I remember a url (or any long piece of text) can contain a small image. I think it was hexadecimal code. I was looking for the words “base16=” or “base32=”.
You are correct those are called “data urls”, they’re intended to embed files in text.
This is not a data url tho, it’s an ugly link
What you mean is base64, and yeah.
In this case the latter part of the link is URL-encoded XML and probably unnecessary, I’d guess that only the first two parameters of the URL are really mandatory, but who knows. There are many ancient and ugly as hell web apps out there.
we have a truly marvelous application process, which this margin is too small to contain
Sick reference, bro.
damn i missed the deadline by 12 years…
Sadly they’ve already deleted that page because the URL has “trans” in it. >.>
That’s some column inches.
Do they still charge by the word? Character? Whatever? Because that’s funny lol. If papers still mattered that would have cost them a fortune.
Nah, now they charge you if your listing is too short. It’s tough to fill out the sections of a newspaper
Somebody got paid by the character
Reminds me of my phoniatrics teacher who printed out a link for us as homework instead of just sending us the link via email
If I remember this site correctly from back then, it was one of those run by idiots that made you upload a PDF of your résumé, and then enter all of the same info in web forms. This tracks.
You know what? I forgive url shorteners, sometimes they truly are necessary
Why has nobody invented a URL longener?
You can always add unnecessary query parameters. Just throw on a
?fart=butts&pen=is&herp=derpetc.If I wanted to add unnecessary characters, I’d just use dots.
Like this: (Lemmy unfortunately breaks the URL)
google.com...............................................
Finally!
(Psst, rumor has it you can tack on to a URL pretty much any alphanumeric text you like after typing a ? or # symbol)
Yeah, but query/hash params aren’t necessary. I don’t want the URL to be shortenable!
URL Shorteners can go down.
QR Codes would literally contain the entire link without relying on a third-party service.
But since they included session information on that URL, the link would still be invalid for everyone
Someone felt like making a point.
This reminds me of how my coworker’s little girl wrote Santa a letter and wrote out the Amazon links of everything she wanted in much the same fashion.
You open it up and it’s a PDF.
The pdf contains a address you have to go to.
At the address is a single desk, with a woman who tells you that you can only apply online.
Sounds like how digitalisation works in Germany. Put the form online as PDF, then either require the other side to print and send in or recive via email then print it yourself and file it into a cabinet…
The friseur that told me on telephone they don’t do reservations and once i got there, i waited a whole hour.
And she’s eating from a Costco sized tub of plain Greek yogurt
