[manifestsilence]

These would be less than convenient to type, but perhaps as we go more and more towards a non-typing web where a walled-garden start page and predefined links lead to the most popular sites with a click, these URLs will become fashionable. I think if so, this will herald the impending death of the human-read and typed URL in favor of start page links and search results.

[JadeNB]

> as we go more and more towards a non-typing web where a walled-garden start page and predefined links lead to the most popular sites with a click

Just a reminder that this is backwards, not forwards: this was my first experience of the Internet, through AOL, and I imagine I'm not the only one.

[kick]

There are more mobile users than there are desktop users, and for them it's just the same to type.

[htfu]

How is switch to emoji input -> press search box -> start typing apple -> press apple symbol and so on “just the same” as app<CR>?