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  2. TinyURL - Wikipedia

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    TinyURL is a URL shortening web service, which provides short aliases for redirection of long URLs. Kevin Gilbertson, a web developer, launched the service in January 2002 [1] as a way to post links in newsgroup postings which frequently had long, cumbersome addresses. TinyURL was the first notable URL shortening service and is one of the ...

  3. Kevin Gilbertson - Wikipedia

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    According to Wired, Gilbertson had been riding unicycles since he was a kid, and created TinyURL to convert postings on unicycling newsgroups into Web pages (since fewer people know their way around newsgroups than the Web). [4] Google's AdSense links covered operating costs. Gilbertson, known by friends as "Gilby," lives in Mexico with his wife.

  4. URL shortening - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 29 January 2025. Web technique For information about short URLs for pages on Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:URLShortener. This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find ...

  5. Category:URL-shortening services - Wikipedia

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  6. Web portal - Wikipedia

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    A web portal is a specially designed website that brings information from diverse sources, like emails, online forums and search engines, together in a uniform way. Usually, each information source gets its dedicated area on the page for displaying information (a portlet ); often, the user can configure which ones to display.

  7. List of HTTP header fields - Wikipedia

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    X-Request-ID, X-Correlation-ID [stackoverflow2 1] Correlates HTTP requests between a client and server. X-Request-ID: f058ebd6-02f7-4d3f-942e-904344e8cde5: X-UA-Compatible [74] Recommends the preferred rendering engine (often a backward-compatibility mode) to use to display the content. Also used to activate Chrome Frame in Internet Explorer.

  8. Clean URL - Wikipedia

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    A URL will often comprise a path, script name, and query string.The query string parameters dictate the content to show on the page, and frequently include information opaque or irrelevant to users—such as internal numeric identifiers for values in a database, illegibly encoded data, session IDs, implementation details, and so on.

  9. WebID - Wikipedia

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    WebID is a method for internet services and members to know who they are communicating with. The WebID specifications define a set of editor's drafts to prepare the process of standardization for identity, identification and authentication on HTTP-based networks.