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Happy Birthday, Dear DNS
Shloka writes with a snippet from Wired News: "Twenty years ago Monday, two computer scientists at the University of Southern California created a key component essential to the modern Internet. Jon Postel and Paul Mockapetris ran the first successful test of the automated domain name system, or DNS..."
but don't sing Happy Birthday or you'll get screwed for copyright infringement.
Mother, do you think they'll like this sig?
Isn't it weird that people take automated name resolving for granted in the internet world, and yet don't find it odd to have to look up other people up themselves manually in another, older, even bigger world wide network called the "telephone system", using an regionalized locally-cached database called the "phone directory" that's updated only once a year ? In the 21st century, I find it really surprising that phones still feature a 10 key touchpad and cheapo dialtones to talk to you.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
This would be kind of like palm graffiti where each "shape", that you draw in the silkscreen, is registered as a character.
In Asian languages, that "new" concept is called "ideograms".
100.000 concepts, 100.000 ideograms. That may work for educated chinese or japanese people, but for internet websites, you're talking about gazillions of "URL graphitis", not just tens of thousands. Considering the difficulty standard computers still have translating handwritten latin alphabet, which is only 26 letters, I think this is a crackpot idea. And even if it worked, did you think about handicapped people, or blind people, who might just like to type URLs in plaintext ?
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash