So I always knew that email addresses were case insensitive (which means that it doesn’t matter what combination of upper- and lowercase letters you type as long as you’re typing the right ones..,) but what I didn’t know was that, after the first forward slash… website addresses ARE case sensitive. Very sensitive. So, if you don’t like reading “Not Found. The requested URL was not found on this server”… you’ll want to make sure you’re using the right capitalization when entering in those web addresses.
Now, of course, I’m going to tell you why — since I looked it up for that very reason:
It takes a lot more work for a program to ignore the capitals and smalls. So, in short, your browser needs to have an exact address match to find what it’s looking for among billions of possibilities.
I’m sure there’s more to it than that, but that’s about all I could read in the Wikipedia entry.
On another note, it’s also very important to actually spell the words out correctly, because close doesn’t cut it. If you put the wrong street address on your snail mail will it get to where its supposed to? Umm… not likely. (Fortunately, misdirected web addresses don’t land you permanently in Deadletter, AZ.)
