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URL’s that are too long

I am sure we all know about TinyURL. It’s that service that let’s us shorten those abysmally long URL’s that some sites offer. I didn’t know that there were so many of these services! Here’s Mashable’s list:
URL Toolbox: 90+ URL Shortening Services
Useful stuff that militates against some of the more annoying web standards. I once heard Tim Berners-Lee wish he had never said “WWW”.
Stephen

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Posted on: February 4, 2008, 10:18 pm Category: Uncategorized

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  1. And of course, there is also http://hugeurl.com/

  2. I found last year that TinyURL addresses might be blocked by Internet filters. I had TinyURL’d a link for an OPAC page I wanted teen feedback on, and heard back from one teenager that she couldn’t get in at school. I’ve been told by school librarians that other TinyURL links I’ve emailed them have been blocked, too. Wonder how many of the other URL shorteners are blacklisted.