Come on guys. I cited Mark Gormley, Snopes, and claimed the fees came from Internet Cleaning! I even made mention of TinyURL’s prototype - ReallyShortURLs.com* - Clearly it’s a joke :)
* Get it? ReallyShortURLs.com. It’s long for no reason. So the goal was to make a short URL and he made it unnecessarily long. Oh nevermind!