Re: school library article in Canada's Globe and Mail

[Dan Robinson <dlrbnsn2@ECLIPSE.NET>]

The 'tinyurl' is a form of the persistent url (PURL) idea developed
by OCLC. It doesn't have any of the original url in it, and there's
no way to trace it backwards. It really creates a link from the long
url that you input into the system to the smaller url that is
created. If the longer url goes away, the tinyurl won't work either.
There is no intelligence connecting the two of them. I wouldn't use
it in webpages, since you have no control over it.

For more information, on the particular item, go to
<http://www.tinyurl.com>. If you want more information on PURLs, a
search of the OCLC site should turn up something.  (I'm not trying
from home on a slow dialup connection).

Dan Robinson
HW Wilson Company
Bronx, NY
drobinson@hwwilson.com

On 24 Jun 2003 at 21:42, Maureen S. Irwin wrote:

> So where did this tiny URL idea come from? Can we use it for pages we
> create? We teach "desconstructin" URLS which would be kind of hard
> using a tiny one. Does the "real URL show up somewhere?  Where can I
> find more info on this? Any book you have not read is a new book ;-)
>
> Maureen S. Irwin
>

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