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Why make a URL easier to remember when you can make it harder?

by Brad Linder on May 7, 2007 at 06:00 PM

hugeurlOkay, this one's been around for a little while, but it's worth sharing. You know how there are a hundred web services out there like TinyURL that let you take a web address and shrink it down to something easier to remember or post on your site?

Well, that's for wimps. What the world really needs is a way to make sure nobody can remember your URL. That's where hugeURL comes in.

Enter a URL, and hugeURL will add a whole bunch of absolutely unnecessary characters. See that block of text in the image on the right? That's what www.downloadsquad.com looks like when its huge-ified.

Is there any practical use for hugeURL? No. But as the website proclaims, it's "Because bigger is better, right?"

[via Digital Inspiration]

Tags: hugeurl, tinyurl

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