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Re:Link shorteners hurt the user experience and destroy the Web by fdevillamil on Tuesday May 27, 2014 @04:58AM (#7803552)
Thank you for mentioning this, I'll correct the article accordingly.

[edit] Fixed

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Re:Link shorteners hurt the user experience and destroy the Web by ABS on Tuesday May 27, 2014 @06:40AM (#7803772)
they existed way before 2002. I used to use welcome.to/ back in 1997 or 1998 to give out a shorter URL to my very long geocities one
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Re:Link shorteners hurt the user experience and destroy the Web by redbearded on Tuesday May 27, 2014 @11:47AM (#7805047)
Good ol' geocities. Now that takes me back!
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