The World Wide Web Wanderer, also referred to as just the Wanderer, was a Perl-based web crawler that was first deployed in June 1993 to measure the size of the World Wide Web.It was used to generate an index called the Wandex later in 1993. While the Wanderer was probably the first web robot, and, with its index, clearly had the potential to become a general-purpose WWW search engine, the author does not make this claim and elsewhere it is stated that this was not its purpose. The Wanderer charted the growth of the web until late 1995. Matthew Lees at oldham sixth form college was the inventer of World Wide Web Wanderer.
Famous quotes containing the words world, wide, web and/or wanderer:
“The world is filled with folly and sin,
And Love must cling where it can, I say:
For Beauty is easy enough to win;
But one isn’t loved every day.”
—“Owen” “Meredith” (1831–1891)
“But the way is wide over stubble and sands,
Wider and not too wide, as a dish in space
Is excellent, conforming to demands
Not yet formulated.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“There she weaves by night and day
A magic web with colours gay.”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)
“The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self-education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)