[7038] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Requesting URLs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roy T. Fielding)
Fri Dec 16 23:00:48 1994
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 1994 04:45:30 +0100
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From: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@avron.ICS.UCI.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www0.cern.ch>
> Currently surfing the net in search of (WWW)URLs which will be compiled into
> a publication early next year. Can you help me? My guess is that there are
> thousands avaiable and I need as many as I can get. Please feel encouraged
> to send me your favorites (or maybe your not so favorites.) Any and all will
> be appreciated.
Ummmmmm, perhaps you should place a few more restrictions on what
you are looking for. My conservative estimate is that there are currently
at least 1 million different URLs out there right now (and that's just HTTP),
and it'll probably be 2 million by June (end of the school year).
My site alone has 2168 unique URLs reachable from server root (not including
many private sub-webs).
Even if you cut it down to just "the top of distinct infostructures",
you are still looking at a minimum of 50,000 (5/server on avg) and
more likely 200,000.
If you want a quick start on what URLs are worth following, see Yahoo
<http://akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo/> which currently contains 22,837
entries.
.....Roy Fielding ICS Grad Student, University of California, Irvine USA
<fielding@ics.uci.edu>
<URL:http://www.ics.uci.edu/dir/grad/Software/fielding>
