Going back through some old files, I found a few images of my old Social Network Spider and Visualization System (SNS-VS) that I thought I'd post here. This is the Java-based spider interface (the SNS part of the system) circa 2005. I've started building a MUCH more advanced version based on Webkit and Qt 4.3. When it's done it will be WAY more powerful, fast, and reliable that the older spider, but for now it's nice to look back on the end-to-end system I build a few years ago.

It was multi-threaded and handled distributed spidering across an arbitrary number of heterogenous machines -- some pretty cool capabilities as far as spiders go (if I do say so myself).