Oh, I'll really miss occasionally peeking at AWStats and discovering weird pages pointing at my weird pages :(
This subtle aspect of web had been always strangely appealing for me: people leaving trails in access logs and building real "footpaths" network of synapses between HTML documents, across origins. Sad to watch it dying, however beneficial and understandable it is.
I feel it didn't have to be this way: maybe if GET wasn't so widely misused recently and generally everybody knew what to not put in URL and acted accordingly, we could have preserved such nice things.
This subtle aspect of web had been always strangely appealing for me: people leaving trails in access logs and building real "footpaths" network of synapses between HTML documents, across origins. Sad to watch it dying, however beneficial and understandable it is.
I feel it didn't have to be this way: maybe if GET wasn't so widely misused recently and generally everybody knew what to not put in URL and acted accordingly, we could have preserved such nice things.