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Ask HN: Queryparams have a starting? and then and as seperator..why?

8 points by TrolTure ↗ HN
Why does the order matter? Wouldn't it be easier to keep it the same?

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CoryG89
I think & is a valid character for path names. You probably need the ? to know the query has begun.
dangrossman
> It was Marc Andreessen who suggested our current method based on what he had already implemented in Mosaic...

https://eager.io/blog/the-history-of-the-url-path-fragment-q...

flukus
> You may have also noticed that cookies follow a similar, but different format: x=1;y=2 which doesn’t actually conflict with HTML character encoding at all. This idea was not lost on the W3C, who encouraged implementers to support ; as well as & in query parameters as early as 1995.

I wish the w3c had won that one.