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Posted on May 4, 2009 | tags

 
 

Offbeat, Tech: Oh, and related to URL-shortening, fun fact of the day

  • Did you know that TinyURL‘s founder is a unicyclist? His name’s Kevin Gilbertson and he started the service in 2002. He wanted to link the unicycling newsgroups easily. He had a problem, solved it via code and created a new business model. Genius. source

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