{"id":135,"date":"2005-05-13T18:48:09","date_gmt":"2005-05-13T23:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fiveforks.com\/ted\/2005\/05\/short_urls\/"},"modified":"2012-10-14T13:00:58","modified_gmt":"2012-10-14T18:00:58","slug":"short_urls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/2005\/05\/short_urls\/","title":{"rendered":"Short URL’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some time ago, Jeb wrote a post<\/A> about TinyURL<\/A>, a web service that takes a long web URL and gives you a tiny one. This is useful for e-mailing someone a URL because if you just give them the whole URL it will be broken onto two lines and no longer work. Though I knew about TinyURL for a while, for some reason I didn’t use it for a long work web address and I would get people who would say it didn’t work because the very last letter had wrapped to the next line. I sent out an e-mail yesterday and got three comments about the links not working so I decided it was time.<\/p>\n

I entered in the long address and TinyURL, as always, gave me a very short link that takes people to their website before instantly forwarding them to my site. The shortcut always starts http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/ (not even a www, which shows how serious they are about short URL’s) and then has five (used to be four) random numbers and letters.<\/p>\n

Well, the shortcut it gave me ended with 3 letters of a 4-letter word I would rather not repeat here. Being a smart guy I thought I would just enter it again and get a new TinyURL. But TinyURL, being even smarter than me, spit back the exact same nearly indecent URL.<\/p>\n

I figured TinyURL was such a great idea that somebody had probably copied it. I searched for an alternative and soon found URL123<\/A>. They have essentially the same service (except one less letter!) and I wound up with the much more pleasant:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/url123.com\/6v844<\/A><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some time ago, Jeb wrote a post about TinyURL, a web service that takes a long web URL and gives you a tiny one. This is useful for e-mailing someone a URL because if you just give them the whole URL it will be broken onto two lines and no longer work. Though I knew … Continue reading “Short URL’s”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1830,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/1830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}