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TinyURL is a URL shortening web service, which provides short aliases for redirection of long URLs. Kevin Gilbertson, a web developer, launched the service in January 2002 [1] as a way to post links in newsgroup postings which frequently had long, cumbersome addresses. TinyURL was the first notable URL shortening service and is one of the ...
Kevin Gilbertson. Kevin Gilbertson is an American web developer best known as the creator of TinyURL launched in January 2002. [1] [2] TinyURL is a URL shortener, a web service that provides short aliases for redirection of long URLs. [3]
URL shortening. The URL shortener on Meta-Wiki. URL shortening is a technique on the World Wide Web in which a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) may be made substantially shorter and still direct to the required page. This is achieved by using a redirect which links to the web page that has a long URL.
A URL is a specific type of Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), [2] [3] although many people use the two terms interchangeably. [4] [a] URLs occur most commonly to reference web pages ( HTTP / HTTPS) but are also used for file transfer ( FTP ), email ( mailto ), database access ( JDBC ), and many other applications.
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The 2024 UEFA European Under-17 Championship (also known as UEFA Under-17 Euro 2024) is the 21st UEFA European Under-17 Championship (40th edition if the Under-16 era is also included), the annual international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the men's under-17 national teams of Europe.
The "TinyURL Generator Widget" link in the "External links" section leads to a webpage that has been blacklisted as fraudulent by Opera. It may, therefore, need to be removed from the list. -- Kitsunegami ( talk ) 21:41, 9 March 2008 (UTC) Reply [ reply ]
Letters and typographical symbols were sometimes used to create illustrations, in a precursor to ASCII art. Because changing ink color in a mimeograph could be a laborious process, involving extensively cleaning the machine or, on newer models, replacing the drum or rollers, and then running the paper through the machine a second time, some ...