UserLand.Com: What is a permalink?
News sites, or weblogs, begat the need for a concept that would make sense for newspaper websites too — the permalink.
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Sometimes the time of the post is linked to the permalink.
This is how MovableType handles it, though I confess, it seemed non-obvious to me at first.
Why permalink? do we need a new pseudo word for this? Why not just “link?” As in “where’s the link to this entry?” Sometimes a thing doesn’t seem real unless it has its own jargon. I’m not trying to hold back the creativity of language, but some of it just seems needless.
And as the lads at http://winerlog.inspiredsites.net have noted, permanent isn’t, necessarily.