It has nothing to do with website design. It’s part of the HTTP protocol. A poor part in today’s understanding and use cases, but in the 90s it would have made sense.
I think they’re talking about basic Auth, with which you can pass credentials in a URL like this:
I thought basic Auth was where you base64 encoded the username and password and sent it as the Authorization header
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