[willnorris]

A couple of the startups that do go links have blog posts on the history:

https://www.golinks.com/blog/go-links-history/

https://www.trot.to/blog/2020/07/09/go-links-origin-story

[Thorrez]

Those 2 stories kind of contradict each other. One says Benjamin Staffin invented golinks, then later another Googler built golinks in 2006. The other says Benjamin Staffin created golinks around 2009/2010.

[whatgaul]

Original author of https://github.com/trotto/go-links here! We spoke with Benjamin directly, so I trust his recollection.