Numeric webpage addresses (dull question, sorry)

Factual Questions
1

A number of sites I visit regularly, including http://www.teamtalk.com and http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk seem to have an unusual method of addressing individual webpages on their sites. The actual pages end with addresses such as:

http://www.teamtalk.com/teamtalk/Team_News/0,1562,34,00.html

Is this a particular naming convention or a piece of software being used? If it’s the latter, what is the software and why does it seem to be so popular? Is it simply addressing scalability for large sites?

2

By looking at the page source, the top line you see identifies each site as using Vignette StoryServer 4. This seems to be a piece of software that serves stories as html documents from a database (and does it badly, according to http://philip.greenspun.com/wtr/vignette-old.html ).

Here’s a list of other places you will probably find this format (although some may just use other Vignette products): http://www.vignette.com/CDA/Site/0,2097,1-1-31-1495,00.html#media

And here (in that same format) is what Vignette had to say on the release of StoryServer 4: http://www.vignette.com/CDA/Site/0,2097,1-1-30-72-601-576,00.html

And that, folks, was my 2000th post. But to be nice to the mods, I’m not throwing a party or anything.

3

Thanks, waterj2 (and congrats)! If I had half a brain cell, I’d have thought about looking at the page source myself.

4

http://www.vignette.com/CDA/Site/0,2097,1-1-31-1495,00.html#media

http://www.vignette.com/CDA/Site/0,2097,1-1-30-72-601-576,00.html

My 2000th post, and I screw up vB tags. Fuck.

But don’t worry about overlooking the obvious. I figure that if we become overly good at seeing what’s right beneath our noses, we are liable to go crosseyed.