I just added another anecdote that I just remembered to the part of my book about web scraping:

"Somewhere around 2002, when I was in high school, my friends and I decided to make a song lyrics website. Similar sites existed but they were incomplete. I thought it would be simple to just scrape the lyrics from all of those other sites and make a single site that had all of the lyrics. I wrote a script to scrape thousands of lyrics from one of these sites, but my script crashed while it was running, and I realized this was because the website had stopped working. A few days later, the site came back online with a message: The owner was overjoyed to learn how much traffic they were getting, but they had to raise money to keep their site online to keep up. I felt bad about it, and we never ended up launching that lyrics site."