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I'm now imagining what someone from those days would make of your post about their contact info being picked up by "robots and spiders." :D

Web Spiders have been around since ‘94 and the spider terminology for mapping networks is even older so they’d likely get it.

Oh geez. Webcrawler, and robots.txt. There was no SEO, just "don't overwhelm my modem / ISDN connection / T1". It's been a while!

A lot more interesting protocols too! I miss gopher & finger