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> I thought that literally the entire point of URL's was that humans can't remember and use IP's naturally so we created URL's and DNS to let humans interface with the machine IP language.

That'd be the base URI, but not the full one. If you used IPs, it would still be http://123.456.789.123/search&q=foo

Google is the new DNS. Only a small subset of people care about URLs beyond the domain name (this subset has a large overlap with HN readers). Unless you've nothing else to improve, there are usually more effective ways to improve your websites that you can spend that time on.

well, now adays there aren't enough IPv4 addresses for all the websites out there. vhosts have become very popular for hosting. I'd imagine if we didn't have DNS, IPv6 would have been pushed through much much faster.

Just type IP's

How exactly would you get at a particular resource at that IP? That's what we're all talking about.