Not to worry, the world still needs mediumsizedurl.com
It'd take any URL and convert it to something kinda medium-sized. 30 or 40 characters maybe, fill up a respectable chunk of the bar at the top of your browser window while leaving a nice bit of breathing room.
I hate to reply to myself, but... I was just thinking about that a bit more and I think it could actually be made quasi-useful.
If the hashing worked with dictionary words, you could use it to make unreadable, unmemorizable URLs both readable and memorizable. Each new url could be assigned three random dictionary words, e.g.:
And that'll give you something that's both medium-sized and readable. Without going into obscure words we can easily get 20,000 of 'em, so that's 8e12 possible combinations of three words -- shouldn't be an issue.
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Not to worry, the world still needs mediumsizedurl.com
It'd take any URL and convert it to something kinda medium-sized. 30 or 40 characters maybe, fill up a respectable chunk of the bar at the top of your browser window while leaving a nice bit of breathing room.
I hate to reply to myself, but... I was just thinking about that a bit more and I think it could actually be made quasi-useful.
If the hashing worked with dictionary words, you could use it to make unreadable, unmemorizable URLs both readable and memorizable. Each new url could be assigned three random dictionary words, e.g.:
mediumsizedurl.com/acute_recovery_cable
(Thanks to http://watchout4snakes.com/creativitytools/RandomWord/Random... for the random words)
And that'll give you something that's both medium-sized and readable. Without going into obscure words we can easily get 20,000 of 'em, so that's 8e12 possible combinations of three words -- shouldn't be an issue.
That already exists. I forget the URL, but I've definitely seen that.
http://decenturl.com/ in a way...
TinyUrl lets you make up your own descriptive identifier now.
That's the one I was thinking of. Thanks.