The Internet has always repeated itself. Generative AI changes the scale, speed and cost. One source can become twenty publications and fifty citations - until repetition begins to look like independent confirmation.
A small server, a growing dataset, and suddenly Meta, Google, Claude, Amazon and OpenAI appear in the access log at the same time. What begins as ordinary crawling starts to look like a western, then The Matrix, and finally something much more interesting: a glimpse of the web increasingly being explored by machines for machines.
A quiet look at a server access log turns into something larger: Google, Meta, Amazon, Anthropic and OpenAI crawling the same corner of the Web. What happens when machines become some of the Web’s most persistent readers?
Does a twenty-year-old domain really have an advantage? A personal perspective on history, trust and building projects that stand the test of time.