w00t!!!!, as Alex would say.
I’m soon to be the proud owner of 4 stereoviews of downtown Waterbury. These went up on e-bay just a few minutes before my regular check for such things. I circumvented the usual pitched bidding war with my nemesis Squire.Jonn by using the “Buy It Now” option. (Don’t ask what I paid. It’s worth it to me.)
Unlike the postcards I’ve been accumulating which go back to around 1900 or so, these photos are from the 1870s and show buildings that I’ve read about but have never seen. Popping these into my antique viewer will provide a sneak preview of my longterm hobby project of creating a 3D model of the Brass City. My own private time machine.
This piece was published last summer and was pointed to by today’s issue of the
“http://www.distance-educator.com” target=”_blank”>Distance Educator. It’s an interesting followup to the first deep web article from 2000 which estimated that the number of web pages out there is over 500 billion, and that search engines have only indexed 2% of it or so.
The article points out that the deep web, those pages that are generated on the fly by back-end databases, is growing faster than the surface web and that the information contained there is more valuable. There’s a list of the top fifty (i.e., largest) deep web sites. Among the more interesting ones:
Think I’ll add some of these to my Specialized Search Engines page.