Make a Tiny Link
Following on from the previous post on Make A Shorter Link and its future, there is news to report.
Shortly after we announced that MASL was closed for new links, Kevin Gilbertson of TinyURL got in touch with a proposal: he’d be happy to take on the MASL database, do all the work of intertwingling it with his code, and maintain the existing MASL links for as long as they need to be maintained.
This was just the sort of offer we needed, really. We always said from the beginning that we’d try to pass on the DB to an appropriate person if and when this time came. Kevin was as about as appropriate a person as we could have asked for, and he has been generous with his time and his encouraging comments. He said that if he’d known about MASL at the time, he’d have never started building TinyURL, which makes the transfer of our service to him even more apt.
So that’s that, then. Gilby (as he’s known) has taken control of MASL’s insides, and we’re in the process of handing over the domains to him. Make A Shorter Link is now part of TinyURL; if you want to make some nice shorter links, perhaps even some tiny URLs, you know where to make them.
It feels a little bit like Barney’s first day at school. Off you go little MASL; have a great time! Be good!
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