I was looking through the logs on my Linux box last night as I do once in a while just to see what or who has been on my computer and noticed something really interesting.
131.162.130.179 – - [01/Feb/2009:01:39:20 -0500] “GET / HTTP/1.0″ 200 999 “-” “AcadiaUniversityWebCensusClient”
A web census client, what the hell is that? So I went and looked it up this morning after checking last night to make sure it was not anything serious. Looks like the Jodrey School of Computer Science at Acadia University is doing a census of all the public IP addresses in the world to see if there is a public web server available and if there is they download the homepage, minus the images. Seems like a really neat idea, wonder how long it will take them to visit all 3.7 billion IP addresses they have in the list; have to make sure and check out their website once in a while and see what progress they’ve made.
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