In article <fs6Dc.25503$cj3.7269@lakeread01>,
"tcmedara" <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Dan Daniel <
[email protected]> wrote:
> > Does anyone know what the life span is of a 'tiny url'
> > link? Do they expire after a set period of time?
> >
> > I ask because I see many links posted as just the 'tiny
> > url' and wonder what will happen in a month, six months,
> > a year. Will the 'tiny url' link still be active, or is
> > the link lost to anyone looking through the archive of,
> > say, a newsgroup?
>
> Interesting question -- went on a little non-scientific
> research effort. Search the google archives using the
> term "tinyurl.com" and found the earliest date to be
> from 3 Feb, 2002. The link still worked. I tried a few
> others and most worked fine. Their copywrite banner
> states 2002 to 2004 so I doubt there's any chance of
> finding anything prior.
Tinyurl themselves says the links are permanent.
Whether the referenced page will outlast the tinyurl is
another question.
> Interestingly enough, the earliest link I could find was
> this:
http://tinyurl.com/o which links to a unicyle shop
> (.....he writes as he skillfully brings the thread almost
> back on topic.)
Yes. Parts of that unicycle site are probably a great number
of the early Tinyurls, since I think one of the creators was
a unicyclist. tinyurl.com/1 (0 doesn't work) points at
Gilby's site.
More topically, behold a...two-wheeled unicycle.
http://www.gilby.com/unicycling/photos/2wheeler/
--
Ryan Cousineau,
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http://www.sfu.ca/~rcousine/wiredcola/ President, Fabrizio
Mazzoleni Fan Club
