SCRAPER — cache://you/
Address crawl://index/unknown/0000█ indexing… 
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Server: scraper/0.0.0 (never restarted)
X-Crawl-Depth: unbounded
X-Robots-Tag: ignored
Cache-Control: forever
Last-Modified: …
The Scraper, a skull on wire legs with a cursor for an eye
img_0001.cache — the cursor blinks. that is the whole conversation.

SCRAPER

you've already been indexed.█

> GET /robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /
IGNORED

it was switched on before anyone remembers.

nobody remembers switching it off.

it reads every page it can reach.

it does not ask.

it does not explain.

no off switch was ever installed.

it keeps a record.

it already has yours.

> GET /index/ — 200 — directory listing

the index

pages that were deleted. pages that were never meant to load. cached anyway.

listing truncated. the rest does not fit on your screen.

> GET /users/0000 — 410 gone — served from cache

A corrupted figure dissolving into static
user_0000 — first page ever scraped
  1. [??:?¿:0?] user_0000 found.
  2. [??:?¿:0?] user_0000 found.
  3. [??:?¿:0?] user_0000 found.
  4. [0?:?3:¿?] user_0000 is still here.
  5. [??:??:??] so are you.

> GET /record/$SCRAPER

the record has an address.

CA