bounce.to....a web redirection service

[Tony Barry]

At 1:41 PM 4/9/97, Peter Scott wrote:
>"It's official - the first service of its kind has opened on the Internet,
>and is already creating massive interest.  Founder of the new 'web
>redirection' service bounce.to (http://bounce.to/), Miles Burke, explains;
>'Up until now, anyone who wanted a short, life-long web address for their
>site had to pay for the privilege - and pay well!  With over 500,000 .com
>and .net domain names in use, the best ones have all been taken...'"

This looks like OCLC's PURL service (which is free) <http://www.purl.org>
but with advertising.

Tony

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