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Well, originally, tinyurl just went for sequential short URLs too. But as those were predictable, abuse was afoot: "Early on, the resulting URL aliases of the s
by dagobart 17y ago
Well, originally, tinyurl just went for sequential short URLs too. But as those were predictable, abuse was afoot: "Early on, the resulting URL aliases of the service were predictable, and were exploited by users to create vulgar associations. The URL aliases dick and cunt were made to redirect to the White House websites of U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and Second Lady Lynne Cheney." Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinyurl#Early_abuses http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinyurl#Early_abuses
- mdakin 17y agoInteresting... tack that hash on. :) Probably does not need to be a hash actually. A few random base-36 digits would do it. You'd just need to store the random digits with the URL in whatever sort of persistent storage system you're utilizing.