Trying to Save the Web’s Shortcuts

November 25, 2009 — Paul Lomio

From the “Technology Journal” of today’s Wall Street Journal (Wednesday, November 25, 2009, p. B5):

Trying to Save the Web’s Shortcuts

Project Seeks to Preserve Links Behind Fledgling Services That Shrink Internet Addresses

By Andrew LaVallee

The Internet Archive and more than 20 start-ups are banding together to preserve the historical records of the abbreviated Web addresses that are passed around on services such as Twitter.

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