About your computer…
The Universal Republic of Love. There’s No Such Thing as a URL Strange, but true, even though we talk about them all the time, those things that begin http://… and are painted on the sides of buses and buildings everywhere. These things are designed to be used by computer programs, right? So ask your friendly local programmer to write a program to use them for something, and she’ll go try to dig up the official documentation on what to do, and pretty quickly find that there isn’t any for URLs; everything on the subject officially expired years ago. It turns out that all the official documentation is now about “URIs” not “URLs”, so that’s what you’ve been using in recent years, whether you know it or not…. [ongoing]
About your computer…
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