Sarah Gooding, writing at WP Tavern about Automattic’s 100-year plan:

What resources will a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) point to 50 years from now? Or will URLs be discarded into the scrap pile of obsolete building blocks as soon as there’s a better, more efficient way to identify web addresses?

I think URLs and HTTP are here to stay. The web is over 30 years old and the basic foundation is strong.