Description

Find the date when this URL (shortener) was created.

Password is Month and Day (eg. “jan” and day “1”)

https://bit.ly/mylnkbio

Instructions

If you are checking for the right date, try to use incognito mode.

Type password: month-day
Example: jan-4 (all lower case)

Solution

The URL is shortened using Bitly and when we open it, it redirects us to a Jan Tegze ’s LinkedIn profile.

Jan Tegze’s LinkedIn profile

A quick search on the internet and we can find that Bitly has a feature to see the creation date of a shortened URL. We can add a + at the end of the URL to see the statistics of the shortened URL. Source: Stack Overflow

stackoverflow

So the URL becomes https://bit.ly/mylnkbio+ and we can see the creation date of the shortened URL.

Bityly date

As we can see, the creation date of the shortened URL is April 17, 2020 16:18 UTC

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