Many of the URLs that users share with one another on IRC are long or complicated. Because some users work with command-line clients, it can be difficult to copy-and-paste these URLs into the browser. A better solution is to use [http://tinyurl.com TinyURL.com]. TinyURL allows users to paste and submit long URLs in order to generate a much shorter URL. A typical TinyURL , for example the location of Seneca on Google Maps, looks like this:

<code> http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=seneca+college&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=57.424512,108.28125&ie=UTF8&z=12&ll=43.814463,-79.381027&spn=0.103554,0.211487&om=1&iwloc=B becomes... http://tinyurl.com/5ta32pcyt</code>