# Numeric webpage addresses (dull question, sorry)
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numeric-webpage-addresses-dull-question-sorry/53919
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [February 10, 2001, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numeric-webpage-addresses-dull-question-sorry/53919 "2001-02-10T15:17:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2001, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numeric-webpage-addresses-dull-question-sorry/53919/1 "2001-02-10T15:17:50Z")
A number of sites I visit regularly, including [http://www.teamtalk.com](http://www.teamtalk.com) and [http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk](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](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?
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### Author:  [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2001, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numeric-webpage-addresses-dull-question-sorry/53919/2 "2001-02-10T15:53:13Z")
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](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](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](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.
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### Author:  [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2001, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numeric-webpage-addresses-dull-question-sorry/53919/3 "2001-02-10T16:00:29Z")
Thanks, **waterj2** (and congrats)! If I had half a brain cell, I’d have thought about looking at the page source myself.
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### Author:  [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2001, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numeric-webpage-addresses-dull-question-sorry/53919/4 "2001-02-11T06:33:40Z")
[http://www.vignette.com/CDA/Site/0,2097,1-1-31-1495,00.html#media](http://www.vignette.com/CDA/Site/0,2097,1-1-31-1495,00.html#media)
[http://www.vignette.com/CDA/Site/0,2097,1-1-30-72-601-576,00.html](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.