Editing Permalink (section)

==History==

In the early years of the web, all content was static, and thus all [[hyperlink]]s pointed at a filename. Soon, though, many web pages became [[Dynamic web page|dynamic]], and many URLs began to include query terms.

One cited early use of the term ''permalink'' in its current sense was by [[Jason Kottke]] on March 5, 2000, in a post titled: "Finally. Did you notice the".<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |url=http://www.kottke.org/00/03/finally-did-you-notice-the |title=Finally. Did you notice the (kottke.org)<!-- Bot generated title --> |date=5 March 2000 |access-date=2005-12-09 |archive-date=2022-12-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221222033624/http://www.kottke.org/00/03/finally-did-you-notice-the |url-status=live }}</ref>  [[Matthew Haughey]] had discussed a permalink-style feature with [[Blogger (service)|Blogger]] co-founders [[Evan Williams (Internet entrepreneur)|Evan Williams]] and Paul Bausch the previous weekend, and Bausch had pointed out that it was technically feasible to produce permanent links in Blogger, using a feature (written by him) that allowed the ID of a post to be placed in a Blogger template.  In response to Kottke's [[blog]], on March 6, 2000, Haughey posted the technical details on his own weblog,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://a.wholelottanothing.org/2000/03/caroline-wishes-outloud-for.html |title=Caroline wishes outloud for {{!}} A Whole Lotta Nothing<!-- Bot generated title --> |work=A Whole Lotta Nothing |date=6 March 2000 |access-date=2008-12-16 |archive-date=2011-07-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716162021/http://a.wholelottanothing.org/2000/03/caroline-wishes-outloud-for.html |url-status=live }}</ref> which helped open the way to widespread adoption.{{Citation needed|date=September 2009}}