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Clotho
26th December 2012, 07:32 AM
From this article: Berners-Lee: World Finally Realizes Web Belongs To No One (http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/06/sir-tim-berners-lee/?utm_source=Contextly&utm_medium=RelatedLinks&utm_campaign=Previous)

As for those lengthy addresses, he says they’re here to stay. They provide a certain amount of security. “We need them for trust,” he says. “You need to check the domain name to make sure you’re where you want to be.” And, well, those addresses are what make the web the web.

“The URL will be the last thing to change,” he says, “because that’s the thing that ties it all together.” -Sir Tim Berners-Lee

Rubber Duck
26th December 2012, 07:40 AM
Absolutely right of course, but the Web is not the Internet. Other parallel systems could be set up on the Internet, and of course you could have Networks that run in parallel and in competition with the Internet, although the consensus is that that would be detrimental.