Actually I think it came about to ease the problem of urls breaking in emails.
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Roger D. Parish <rogerd.par...@gmail.com>wrote: > At 3:06 PM -0500 3/12/10, John Emmerling wrote: > > Today, I think anybody can be excused for being paranoid. _Esp._ with >> respect to wide-open domains like .tv. >> >> What real purpose does tinyurl really serve nowadays? Don't >> up-to-date mail readers handle URLs of any arbitrary length with no >> problem? >> > > I think the URL-shortning service became popular when Twitter, with its > 140-character limit on message size, took off in popularity. > -- > Roger > Lovettsville, VA > > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
