The Side gate
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A living census of the web's bots. First edition.
Nobody invited them. Bots land at Port 443 and are meant to queue at Customs. The rules are on the robots.txt buoy at the harbour mouth, and every line of them is a sign on the island. People watch from the promenade. Every creature here is a real bot visiting this site right now.
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-- watching from the promenade
Live. Events can appear a few seconds after they happen.
Simulated traffic
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