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URL shortening is a technique on the World Wide Web in which a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) may be made substantially shorter and still direct to the required page. This is achieved by using a redirect which links to the web page that has a long URL.
Development of Tumblr began in 2006 during a two-week gap between contracts at David Karp's software consulting company, Davidville. [3] [4] Karp had been interested in tumblelogs (short-form blogs, hence the name Tumblr) [5] for some time and was waiting for one of the established blogging platforms to introduce their own tumblelogging platform.
The Wikimedia URL Shortener is a feature that allows you to create short URLs for any page on projects hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, in order to reuse them elsewhere, for example on social networks, on wikis, or on paper. The feature can be accessed from Meta-Wiki on the special page m:Special:URLShortener. On this page, you will be able ...
And only Tumblr knows the rules, because the rules of Goncharov (1973) are the rules of Tumblr itself." [ 2 ] Caitlin Quinlan, writing for Empire , noted that the meme had "enough material for an entire franchise thanks to its creative devotees" and expressed the hope that Goncharov "could one day become more of a reality".
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.
URL is a useful but informal concept: a URL is a type of URI that identifies a resource via a representation of its primary access mechanism (e.g., its network "location"), rather than by some other attributes it may have. [19] As such, a URL is simply a URI that happens to point to a resource over a network.
David Karp (born July 6, 1986) [1] is an American entrepreneur and blogger, best known as the founder and former CEO of the microblogging platform Tumblr. [2] [3]Karp began his career, without receiving a high school diploma, as an intern under Fred Seibert at the animation company Frederator Studios, where he built the studio's first blogging platform and conceived, wrote, and edited their ...