TinyURL's been around since 2002. http://tinyurl.com/a http://tinyurl.com/a still works. How many of those TinyURL links lead to pages and sites that no longe

TinyURL's been around since 2002. http://tinyurl.com/a http://tinyurl.com/a still works. How many of those TinyURL links lead to pages and sites that no longer exist? Now, if your site is something that you're serious about keeping up over the long term, including retaining or properly redirecting all the URIs you offer, great - you're ahead of most of the web. However, if you don't want people to shorten your URIs, then you'll want to make short URIs.