--- author: Eric Wagoner date: '1999-10-05T04:28:44' draft: false title: The Brunching Shuttlecocks did a --- [The Brunching Shuttlecocks](http://www.brunching.com) did a rating of Paleolithic Webpages, and included [The Garden of Eden](http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~eveander/): _Eve Astrid Andersson was the original Hot Web Babe, based on the fact that she was female, had a Web page, and had memorized hundreds of digits of pi. Andersson's star has been eclipsed, sadly enough, by the hundreds of pay-per-peek Web sites with "cam" in the name, but know that there was once a time when a woman's attractiveness on the Web was measured not by how much skin she flashed at her QuickCam, but by how many numbers she could stuff into her brain at once._ I'll take a brain stuffed with numbers over a bit of flashed skin any day. But I guess that's just me.