Yes, but should this be encouraged even further? I think it should not because the less people know about the technology then easier it is for snake-oil sellers and politicians to lead them where they want them to be.

...and that's because they are fucking stupid.

You know what I recently observed? A bunch of kindergarteners fastening their shoes to their feet with velcro straps.

Their shoes also had little blinky lights on them, so that cars don't run them over, when they chase a soccer ball into the street. Let make all the adults wear velcro shoes with blinky lights on them too.

I started using velcro-fastening shoes when I had a mild stroke that prevented me from tying laces. Now, I continue to use them because (1) they are very convenient and easy to adjust, and (2) I go dancing a lot and find them easier to switch to my dancing shoes.

Considering how often I have to retie the laces while dancing, I would definitely consider getting dancing shoes with velcro.

I do the same thing, and high school was long time ago for me.

As for typing URLs, I do that, too, but autocompletion takes over after one or two characters. E.g., 'ne' suffices to get me to the HN front page. Navigation for me is pretty much all search or autocomplete, followed by normal link following. Except for a couple of bookmarklets, I do not use bookmarks. Back in the nineties, I used bookmarks a lot.

Once in a while, I will manually change a URL already in the location bar or paste one in and modify it.

However, I do look at URLs a lot. They often provide valuable navigational clues. And I appreciate well-structured URLs, such as the readwrite.com ones you posted, and I scorn the opaque numerical messes that some content management systems generate. I agree with the article.

The only thing I still use bookmarks for are saving and ordering of web development libraries and tools. Otherwise I would be unable to find that one specific slider that would be perfect for this specific use.

I still need to open source that collection, because it's huge and has been super useful for me. I'm just not entirely sure what the best way would be.