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Wasn't it services like learn.to, beam.to and similar that came first? With the intend to have freely pickable shorthand URLs, where the shortness of them was j
by dagobart 17y ago
Wasn't it services like learn.to, beam.to and similar that came first? With the intend to have freely pickable shorthand URLs, where the shortness of them was just a byproduct?
I'm not sure of this, but iirc the learn.to/beam.to etc services were around in the early web already, mid-90s, while tinyurl and friends came later.
- nimbix 17y agoThose services were different because they were meant to provide an alternative URL for your website, not someone else's. Also, they required you to go through a signup process and I remember some of them displaying ads. And of course, there was no Twitter back in those days to create an artificial need for short URLs.