🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2024-10-31
Reflecting on the rise and fall of short URLs and QR codes since 2010.
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Back in 2010, short URLs were still very much in vogue because a shorter URL is a better URL, right?
Not to be outdone, Google even offered a short URL service… with a QR (quick-response) code too!
Of course, many short URLs services have gone away over the years with the links becoming link rot (or worse). As you might expect, QR codes are not without their own challenges.
Techmeme: Banks and regulators warn of a rise in QR code phishing scams, which experts say are most commonly deployed in emails to evade corporate cyber security filters (Stephanie Stacey/Financial Times)
By Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times. View the full context on Techmeme.
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