It was on this day in 1969 that the first message was sent between computers on the ARPANET. ARPANET was the precursor to today’s Internet. Who back then could’ve imagined all the junk that would one day clog it?
Check out Cathy Davidson’s piece in Cosmos Magazine to put the impact of this truly amazing resource in perspective.
(hat tip Paul Jones)
Damn it. My friend Ron sent me pictures yesterday from his home on Orcas Island. Now I can’t stop thinking about the place!
Oh, to have more vacation time and more money.
Earlier this week I banned MSN’s msnbot from spidering my website. I did this with an entry in the robots.txt file:
User-Agent: msnbot
Disallow: /
I checked with MSN’s robots.txt verifier to make sure this would keep msnbot from spidering my site. The only problem is that I also blocked the MSN IP addresses. Thus msnbot couldn’t fetch robots.txt to tell it was no longer wanted.
So, I unblocked the IPs and allowed msnbot to grab the robots.txt file, which it did repeatedly (this is a small sample):
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