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> I believe robots.txt was invented in 1994(thx chatgpt).

Not to pick on you, but I find it quicker to open new tab and do "!w robots.txt" (for search engines supporting the bang notation) or "wiki robots.txt"<click> (for Google I guess). The answer is right there, no need to explain to LLM what I want or verify [1].

[1] Ok, Wikipedia can be wrong, but at least it is a commonly accessible source of wrong I can point people to if they call me out. Plus my predictive model of Wikipedia wrongness gives me pretty low likelihood for something like this, while for ChatGPT it is more random.






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