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09-16-2003, 04:11 PM
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Tinyurl.com .. how the hell does it work? Amazing!
http://tinyurl.com/
As simple as possible: you just give it an url, as long as you want, and he will give you something like http://tinyurl.com/njq8
How the hell it is possible that if you click that tiny one you'll end up on the one I entered? And also if you'll try tomorrow or in a month, as far as I know it will still work...
I'm amazed
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09-16-2003, 04:21 PM
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THanks Matteo, great find.
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09-16-2003, 04:29 PM
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Yeh, it can be very helpfull with long ebay links that are broken in two when posted in messageboards or similar very usefull indeed
But still a mistery
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09-16-2003, 05:18 PM
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Re: Tinyurl.com .. how the hell does it work? Amazing!
Originally Posted by TT
How the hell it is possible that if you click that tiny one you'll end up on the one I entered?
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It's quite simple, TT. The tinyurl address gets you to a place on the tinyurl server. Once you get on their server you get redirected to the original location (of wich the address is stored on the tinyurl server). Do you get this? It's so simple that it's hard to explain. There's an explanation on their webpage too.
By the way, nice find. Thanks.
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09-16-2003, 05:32 PM
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Nice one!!
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09-16-2003, 05:34 PM
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very nice find! thanks TT!
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09-16-2003, 05:35 PM
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Re: Tinyurl.com .. how the hell does it work? Amazing!
Originally Posted by draak666
Originally Posted by TT
How the hell it is possible that if you click that tiny one you'll end up on the one I entered?
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It's quite simple, TT. The tinyurl address gets you to a place on the tinyurl server. Once you get on their server you get redirected to the original location (of wich the address is stored on the tinyurl server). Do you get this? It's so simple that it's hard to explain. There's an explanation on their webpage too.
By the way, nice find. Thanks.
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Whoops LOL, I didn't take the time to read all the info on the site.. now I'll have to do it because I wonder for how long the redirect is stored.. dang, with that short 4 digit part, how many combination you can obtain?
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09-16-2003, 05:43 PM
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Re: Tinyurl.com .. how the hell does it work? Amazing!
Originally Posted by TT
Whoops LOL, I didn't take the time to read all the info on the site.. now I'll have to do it because I wonder for how long the redirect is stored.. dang, with that short 4 digit part, how many combination you can obtain?
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Indeed. Or, in case it's stored for ever, the combinations might get longer. Then the name of the site will become www.slightlybiggerurl.com, and then www.prettybigurl.com, www.massiveurl.com will be next and finally, when it gets really popular: www.fuckinghugheurl.com.
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09-16-2003, 09:00 PM
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awsome, hahaha yeh it would be stored on the server
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09-16-2003, 10:18 PM
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thats mad!!!
this will be very handy..thanx
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09-16-2003, 11:05 PM
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Awesome image choice btw TT--I already had that pic as the background of my computer! Amazing what satellite pics can turn out with false colours.
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09-17-2003, 04:19 PM
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A similar place is www.makeashorterlink.com. I've been using this one, didn't know about the tinyurl.
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09-23-2003, 10:08 PM
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hahaha
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09-24-2003, 04:02 AM
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Re: Tinyurl.com .. how the hell does it work? Amazing!
Originally Posted by draak666
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LOL. Thats pretty funny. Nice find TT, looks very very handy.
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