Good URLs don't change
Now where 1did I read that… oh yeah, that’s right, something Sir Tim Berners-Lee wrote. Hang on, I mis-remembered, the actual title is Cool URIs don’t change, ((c)1998 Tim BL)
Now 18 years ago I bookmarked a website that was of interest to me. Two days ago I received a polite email from the company that now owns that company that had the website that contained the page that I linked to. They told me that the link wasn’t valid and that I should change my end to point to their new location. I suggested back that they not change their pages and put back their end… I haven’t heard back.
Good URLs don’t change. Presumably a corollary of this is that URLs that change aren’t good.
