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Offline Jeff Wrangler

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Something I've never seen before
« on: January 21, 2010, 01:10:40 pm »
At a little after noon today, 1/21/10, there were NO users on the site except me.  :-\
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Re: Something I've never seen before
« Reply #1 on: January 21, 2010, 01:15:32 pm »
Not even google 'spiders? or "Guests" as they'll appear as!?

Maybe the whole internet crashed except for you....

You're like the men in Flash Forward!!!
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Re: Something I've never seen before
« Reply #2 on: January 21, 2010, 02:17:08 pm »
Not even google 'spiders? or "Guests" as they'll appear as!?

Maybe the whole internet crashed except for you....

You're like the men in Flash Forward!!!

What's a google spider?  ??? Sounds creepy.  :-\

Oh, there were "guests," but no Users.
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Re: Something I've never seen before
« Reply #3 on: January 21, 2010, 03:00:38 pm »
I had that same experience this morning but in 15 minutes 8 others were here.
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Re: Something I've never seen before
« Reply #4 on: January 21, 2010, 09:38:38 pm »
Thanks for holding down the fort, friends! Even if no one else is here, post something for eternity! It's for eternity that we're doing this, right?

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Re: Something I've never seen before
« Reply #5 on: January 22, 2010, 05:52:38 am »
From http://computer.howstuffworks.com/search-engine1.htm

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Web Crawling
When most people talk about Internet search engines, they really mean World Wide Web search engines. Before the Web became the most visible part of the Internet, there were already search engines in place to help people find information on the Net. Programs with names like "gopher" and "Archie" kept indexes of files stored on servers connected to the Internet, and dramatically reduced the amount of time required to find programs and documents. In the late 1980s, getting serious value from the Internet meant knowing how to use gopher, Archie, Veronica and the rest.

Today, most Internet users limit their searches to the Web, so we'll limit this article to search engines that focus on the contents of Web pages.

Before a search engine can tell you where a file or document is, it must be found. To find information on the hundreds of millions of Web pages that exist, a search engine employs special software robots, called spiders, to build lists of the words found on Web sites. When a spider is building its lists, the process is called Web crawling. (There are some disadvantages to calling part of the Internet the World Wide Web -- a large set of arachnid-centric names for tools is one of them.) In order to build and maintain a useful list of words, a search engine's spiders have to look at a lot of pages.

How does any spider start its travels over the Web? The usual starting points are lists of heavily used servers and very popular pages. The spider will begin with a popular site, indexing the words on its pages and following every link found within the site. In this way, the spidering system quickly begins to travel, spreading out across the most widely used portions of the Web.

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Re: Something I've never seen before
« Reply #6 on: January 22, 2010, 04:22:15 pm »
There were programs called Archie and Veronica?  :laugh:
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Re: Something I've never seen before
« Reply #7 on: January 24, 2010, 08:40:57 am »
There were programs called Archie and Veronica?  :laugh:

seems so!!!  :D
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Re: Something I've never seen before
« Reply #8 on: January 24, 2010, 09:06:34 am »
Oh yes, computer geeks have always had a flair for naming things!
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Re: Something I've never seen before
« Reply #9 on: January 24, 2010, 11:01:00 am »
Well, Jeff, I guess becasue I am on the other side of the world in a different time zone, many many times I come on here and I am here on my lonesome.......

So, while you are all asleep over there, I just want you to know, I am keeping an eye on things on here...
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Re: Something I've never seen before
« Reply #10 on: January 24, 2010, 11:07:38 am »
Well, Jeff, I guess becasue I am on the other side of the world in a different time zone, many many times I come on here and I am here on my lonesome.......

So, while you are all asleep over there, I just want you to know, I am keeping an eye on things on here...


It's similar for me. When I come here early in the monring (6am), there are still some nightowls and/or west-coasters online. A little bit later in the morning (7-8), I'm often on my own, then the other EuroBrokies start showing up. But the forum is usually very quiet between 7am and maybe 3 or 4 pm in my time zone.

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Re: Something I've never seen before
« Reply #11 on: January 24, 2010, 03:22:49 pm »
That's interesting to know what the "population" can look like from other parts of the world.  :D

When I started this thread it was literally the very first time in--how many years has it been now?--that I came on the site and there was no one else here but me.
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Re: Something I've never seen before
« Reply #12 on: January 24, 2010, 05:06:23 pm »
I've seen that before........where nobody else was on.

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Re: Something I've never seen before
« Reply #13 on: January 24, 2010, 05:52:15 pm »
Almost 4 for me and I think you Jeff (many of us joined enmasse on 30 March 2006) .. scary... 4 f*ckin years!
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Re: Something I've never seen before
« Reply #14 on: January 24, 2010, 05:55:52 pm »
I agree that bring the only one online can be an eerie experience. For me it is usually the wee hours of the east coast after the west coast has gone to bed, but before the Europeans are active.  An odd sensation for sure.
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Re: Something I've never seen before
« Reply #15 on: January 24, 2010, 10:51:13 pm »
Almost 4 for me and I think you Jeff (many of us joined enmasse on 30 March 2006) .. scary... 4 f*ckin years!

Oy!  :o I guess it has been, hasn't it?
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Re: Something I've never seen before
« Reply #16 on: January 25, 2010, 05:18:28 am »
mmmhmmm! This yearI hope o meet more of you too.. fingers crossed it happens!
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Re: Something I've never seen before
« Reply #17 on: February 18, 2010, 01:34:27 am »
At a little after noon today, 1/21/10, there were NO users on the site except me.  :-\

Just me right now, along with 30 guests.  ::)
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