History Revisited and Revised
Posted by Lurch on November 26, 2005 • Comments (0)Permalink

Over on the Eschaton webpage there's a small mention of computer technobabble that seems fascinating, listed inder the title "Robots.txt":

Was searching for something and randomly came across the White House's robot.txt file which discourages search engines and archive.org from searching/providing a cache of the web pages in it. No idea if this is a new exciting discovery.

Always interested in learning something about the Black Arts of computer stuff, I clicked the link and if I understand correctly what I saw, I get the impression that OUR White House website has been thingamy-jiggered to prevent Google and a lot of other cache sites from keeping historical records of what's put up on the webpage.

Because, you know, the interpretation of history changes all the time.

Maybe the WH website is an exciting, dynamic, ongoing electronic event that keeps changing?

Or something.

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