World-wide web worm
World-Wide Web
(WWWW) One of the first automatic indexing tools for the World-Wide Web, being developed in September 1994 by Oliver McBryan at the University of Colorado. The worm created a database of 300000 multimedia objects which can be obtained or searched for keywords via the WWW.
(http://cs.colorado.edu/home/mcbryan/WWWW.html).
(1996-05-19)
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