They’re out there, services such as bit.ly, tinyurl.com, now goo.gl, and there is probably more that I am missing.  You’ve probably used them, either in IRC, or Twitter, or somewhere else.  No one really thinks about them, for all you need to do is simply click on them, and you will get to the website you want.  Nice, easy, and it saves you characters on your twitter post, along with keeping the people in your IRC channel happy that you didn’t post a three line link.  However, this is going to be a very large problem down the road, unless some major modification to how the internet works is made. Read the rest of this entry »

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