Spider: "A computer program that prowls the internet looking for publicly accessible resources that can be added to a database; the database can then be searched with a search engine."

Some spiders that frequent our MB are those from Google and Yahoo, among others. These kinds of spiders are a good thing, as they increase our site's visibility on the Internet, over time.

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If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracle of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it.
- Lyndon Johnson, on signing the Wilderness Act into law (1964)