TinyURL
Sign in to saveTinyURL is a URL shortening web service, which provides short aliases for redirection of long URLs. Kevin Gilbertson, a web developer, launched the service in January 2002 as a way to post links in newsgroup postings which frequently had long, cumbersome addresses. TinyURL was the first notable URL shortening service and is one of the oldest still currently operating.
Key facts
- Website.name
- TinyURL
- Website.logo
- TinyURL logo February 2021.svg
- Website.type
- URL shortening
- Website.registration
- Yes
- Website.owner
- TinyURL LLC
- Website.author
- Kevin Gilbertson
- Website.current_status
- Active
- Website.revenue
- Subscription, Advertising
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- inception
- 2002-01-00
- Commons category
- TinyURL
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- Service
- Preview short URLs
- Impact
- Similar services
- X (formerly Twitter)
- TinyURL-whacking
- See also
- References
- External links
TinyURL is a URL shortening web service, which provides short aliases for redirection of long URLs. Kevin Gilbertson, a web developer, launched the service in January 2002 as a way to post links in newsgroup postings which frequently had long, cumbersome addresses. TinyURL was the first notable URL shortening service and is one of the oldest still currently operating.
== Service == The TinyURL homepage includes a form which is used to submit a long URL for shortening. For each URL entered, the server adds a new alias in its hashed database and returns a short URL. According to the website, the shortened URLs will never expire.