the.com/crawling
the awkward prologue every walker forgets they survived first.
means Moving slowly along the ground on hands and knees, or advancing at a painfully slow pace — and, by extension, being densely covered with moving things.
from From Old Norse 'krafla,' meaning to claw or scrabble with the hands — a cousin of the Scandinavian words for clawing your way forward. English took it on as 'creulen' in the Middle Ages, and the sense of slow, low, scrabbling motion stuck so well it spread to traffic, to flesh prickling with dread, and to floors 'crawling' with whatever you'd rather not name.
- baby skip
- Some infants scoot or roll, never crawling at all
- search engines
- Bots crawl billions of web pages daily
- military origin
- Soldiers low-crawl under fire to stay alive
- speed record
- Fastest baby crawl is under ten seconds
- reptile roots
- Predates walking by millions of evolutionary years
googlebot web crawling — google's automated system that indexed over 600 million websites by 2023
common crawl archive — non-profit that crawled and archived 70+ billion web pages since 2011
apptopia app store crawling — service that crawls apple app store and google play to track 5+ million apps