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> it "just" meant losing historical links.

Note that this in a bad idea in general, not just for URL shorteners but also for your personal website and even more for a project or company webseite.

There is a classic article by Tim Berners-Lee on that topic, written in 1998:

"Cool URIs don't change" (http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI)



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