“In The Beginning”
“If Archie was the grandfather of search tools and Veronica the grandmother, then their child, and thus the mother of all search engines, was Matthew Gray’s World Wide Web Wanderer. This was the first "bot" on the web, and was designed to track the growth of the web. Initially it only counted Web servers, but shortly thereafter it started to capture URL’s as it went along. The database of captured URL’s became the Wandex, the first web database.”
Quote: Copyright © 1997 Wes Sonnenreich.
Matt’s URL: http://www.mit.edu/people/mkgray/www-home-page.html