Yesterday, Slashdot asked 'What if TinyURL goes down?' Today, it's down (and it hurts)
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Yesterday, in Slashdot’s huge-gigantic-massive-insignificant-concerns dept, Indus Khaitan posed this hypothetical question:
Thanks to twitter, SMS, and mobile web, a lot of people are using the url minimizers like tinyurl.com, urltea.com……this could be a big problem if billions of different links are unreachable at a given time.
Well, in a strange makes-you-want-to-hum-the-Twightlight-Zone-music-way, it’s hypothetical no more. ...
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