I really love this idea, a standard place to find the authors and the tools (!) used. But I'm not a big fan of the name. Calling it humans.txt to mirror robots.txt doesn't make much sense to me, even as a joke. I think it should be named something direct and comprehensible like credits.txt.
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http://humanstxt.org/
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2131692
I really love this idea, a standard place to find the authors and the tools (!) used. But I'm not a big fan of the name. Calling it humans.txt to mirror robots.txt doesn't make much sense to me, even as a joke. I think it should be named something direct and comprehensible like credits.txt.
Very cool, I've never heard of this before but really like the idea. Kind of a tech secret to find out who's behind a site.
I guess it was seen first time here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2131692
re: humanstxt.org - totally unrelated, but it's amazing how many facial expressions one can draw with one circle and three strokes.
This notion has been formalized. See the (admittedly brief) wikipedia article on Chernoff faces: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernoff_face
This is why I keep coming back here.
Seems appropriate (although somewhat fractal) - http://humanstxt.org/humans.txt.