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Permalink - one of the newest words
Permalinks to this entry: individual page or in monthly context. For more material from my journal, visit my home page or the archive.
One reason English is so successful is that it has no qualms about new words, whether taken from other languages (like caftan, bikini, or karaoke) or freshly coined (dot-bomb, nanotechnology, or crufty -- and its newest incarnation, cruft force).
Perhaps the newest addition applies to weblogs: permalink, just defined nicely by Dave Winer of Userland Software. On my site, you click on the time-stamp for each entry (at the top of this message, 9:06:00 AM) to access the permalink, which, in this case, is:
https://www.penmachine.com/journal/
2002_09_01_news_archive.html#85405405
That way, you can link to an article directly, without having to find it in the archive and scroll down.
