As far as I know TinyURL was the first service to trim hypertrophic URLs to a decent size. The URL for this blog for instance translates to http://tinyurl.com/d8zp8 (TinyURL), or http://snipurl.com/f1gr (SnipURL), or
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(HugeURL), which still might be a mnemotechnic challenge.

doiop is great since it allows to assign your own name for those beasts: http://doiop.com/saurier (if doiop is becoming popular you probably will have to come up with creative pre- or postfixes soon though).

Comments:
See also http://digbig.com
posted by Marshall Kirkpatrick : 5/26/2005 03:17:36 AM