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I wonder how easy it would be to create an archive.org equivalent for URL shorteners. Any shortener could pay a fee (based on the number of links they had) in o
by byrneseyeview 17y ago
I wonder how easy it would be to create an archive.org equivalent for URL shorteners. Any shortener could pay a fee (based on the number of links they had) in order to join, in exchange for which they'd get some form of certification that they were members. The archiving service would be a nonprofit with publicly viewable finances, and would make copies of partial or full link databases available for further download and backup.
If it caught on at all, it would do two things well: 1. it would mean that there were few good reasons to use an un-certified link shortener, and 2. it would make the transition to a post-shortener world much simpler and more graceful: twitter could just download the full data set and repeal the character limit for URLs.
- tlrobinson 17y agohttp://permanize.org/ http://permanize.org/
- codyrobbins 17y agoYeah, but how is Permanize any different than a URL shortener itself — what happens when Permanize goes out of business?
- pronoiac 17y agoThey're not hard to crawl & save locally, at least: http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=TinyURL http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=TinyURL