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Comment by mrspeaker | Hacker News Reader

Many years ago (back when machines weren't so good at image recognition, and we were still better at something) I made "humans.txt": solve simple arithmetic expressions to ensure your services are being consumed by your intended audience - and not bandwidth-wasting humans.

https://www.mrspeaker.net/2010/07/15/humans-txt/

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LOL I was looking for robots.txt or humans.txt on http://www.humansnotinvited.com. I was disappointed to find neither!

Would be so cool if they reverse the spec usage.

    robots.txt        
    /* TEAM */
 
    Your title: Chief Robot


    humans.txt
    
    user-agent:*
    Disallow: /*

dbrand.com should do that for an extra nerdy touch (they call themselves robots and sometimes put drawings as notes in random orders, signed by "Robot" and an ID number)

They have ... something here: https://dbrand.com/humans.txt and nothing special here: https://dbrand.com/robots.txt

> They have ... something here: https://dbrand.com/humans.txt

It's hexadecimal, its translates to the below (cut out the middle because it's massive)

There are no humans at dbrand. Below, you will find a list of credits for all past, present, and future robots of dbrand.

robot011 robot012 ... robot998 robot999

Never forget: The more money you spend, the richer we get.

Now get back to work.

> the semantic web - is just around the corner

Or so you thought...

It got as far as little preview content things for links and RSS, and never as far as RDF tuples. Ah well.

It's not the whole web, but there's a lot of development going on in terms of the semantic web on Wikidata (wikidata.org).

How's that semantic web thing working out for you?

%%% <tone:camouflaged>JUST FINE THANK YOU (class:relation => SubClassOf(stoogetype FELLOW MEATSACK))</:tone>. HA HA hA{

Probably not going well

Challenge accepted, I am going to beat this game

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