More data rot. I wonder how many millions of links are about to disappear.
I really hope nobody used shortened links in href attributes. That would be stupid.
I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s some service that gave out shortened links by default and people just used those everywhere. Lots of people are clueless about how URLs work, and authoring HTML often means filling in a form.
authoring HTML often means filling in a form.
What, like, DreamWeaver style? Sounds cray-cray to me (as a web developer).
Don’t worry. There’s a high chance at least one critical software has a shortened link somewhere in their infrastructure.
On this planet, it seems that there is nothing so stupid that you won’t find someone doing it, alas.
So goo.le no longer work ?
They have one? I just use tinyurl.
I skim this page every time it is posted, but this time scrolling the whole length of it even as fast as I can gave me depression. 295 projects, almost half of them killed in the last 5 years.
I don’t think any other company is based on trial and error to the same degree as Google.
It’s kind of funny, since Google was originally based on hiring the greatest capacities within their field. So you should think they were pretty smart.
But trial and error is actually the LEAST INTELLIGENT method to solve a problem.
I think they’re mostly doing it to get the attention of investors. New products are exciting. It shows the company is growing.
Look at our new self driving car we will definitely release within the next year! Or how about these stupid looking glasses?
But now investors have become more concerned about profitability, so most tech companies are focusing on cutting the costs.
Who could have foreseen this
