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"Never Gonna Give You Up" is the subject of an Internet meme known as "rickrolling" involving misleading links (commonly shortened URLs) redirecting to the song's music video. [35] Started by users on 4chan , the practice had by May 2007 achieved notoriety on the Internet.
As background, a "sink" is the final destination in a chain of URL redirects. The researchers found the YouTube page for Rickrolling was one of the most common sinks on the Internet. Idiomatically they found an " all roads lead to Rome " situation.
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“Yes, I'd like to be a drummer in a cool rock ‘n’ roll band, of course, but I'm not. And sure, it's nice if anybody thinks, ‘He's actually a real artist, he's a musician.’
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 ...
The Bitly URL shortening service became popular on Twitter after it became the default URL shortening service on the website on May 6, 2009. [5] It was subsequently replaced by Twitter's own t.co service. [6] The company behind Bitly launched a similar service, but for online videos, to determine what videos are the most popular on the web. [7]
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