Kevin Gilbertson is an American web developer best known as the creator of TinyURL launched in January 2002.
[3] According to Wired, Gilbertson had been riding unicycles since he was a kid, and created TinyURL to convert postings on unicycling newsgroups into Web pages (since fewer people know their way around newsgroups than the Web).
[4] Google's AdSense links covered operating costs.
Gilbertson, known by friends as "Gilby," lives in Mexico with his wife.
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