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It isn’t meaningful. It’s effectively a pointer. Pointers point to meaningful data but mean nothing by themselves.

Spivak on Aug 14, 2020 [–]

The only real use the path has left on a URL is as a permalink sometimes and for non-computer people it's not clear at all when it is and isn't. I've been sent to many "did I forget to get anything" texts with a link to somesite.com/cart.

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