alt Hacker NewsThe letters are hex digits, and make it more compact, regular. That’s the good part.
But I agree, using a reserved byte to select internet, say 0 for original, next two hundred for each region, with the rest for planets/moons/nearby stars, would have been easier to understand.
> That’s the good part.
Disagree. We are trained on numbers from kindergarten. It's used everywhere (e.g. see a number, store it in short-term memory and input it into calculator). Hex digits are completely different and we don't have developer neural paths for that. They are also unpronounceable.