We hope. A few years ago, everyone probably thought that Microsoft Office was everlasting, but as more people move into the cloud, MS Office's days may be numbered. And remember when AOL was supreme? Remember something called Compuserve before that? Or the days when everyone had fun with free music from Napster?
I'm not writing about Facebook, though that, too, may one day seem like a quaint and distant memory. I want to talk about the possibility that the popular URL shortening service Bit.ly might bite the dust. URL shortening services are essential; without them we'd be floundering around with gigantic URLs that are as impossible to remember as they are to type. No examples of long URLs are needed -- we all know and fear them.
