10 Oct
2001
10 Oct
'01
9:45 a.m.
Steve Schear[SMTP:schear@lvcm.com]
At 11:40 PM 10/9/2001 +0200, Nomen Nescio wrote:
It's unfortunate that we have to rely on Google. Imagine an ongoing, distributed project to cache the web. Volunteers could keep tabs on a subset of corporate and personal web pages and cache old versions when changes are made. Rewriting history becomes that much harder. And it's certainly a better use of computers than seti@home.
This is actually an excellent application front end for a Mojo Nation type
system, as the data is redundant and distributed.
You get an interesting recursion problem arising - does your 'memory of the web' site include sites which contain archives for the purpose of being 'memory of the web'? Shades of Godel.... Peter Trei