TIL the first Internet search engine was “Archie”, which was created in 1990 by Alan Emtage, a postgraduate student at McGill University in Montreal. It’s still around today
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie_(search_engine)
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Boozilla@lemmy.world · 69 pts · 2y
Junkhead@slrpnk.net · 22 pts · 2y
corporate greed has ruined the world
original_reader@lemm.ee · 47 pts · 2y
Why not link to it? Here we go:
Working online Archie Search Instance
Gullible@sh.itjust.works · 48 pts · 2y
Aaaaand it was hugged to death
Cool that Lemmy has enough users to DDOS but darn it, I wanted a hit of nostalgia
Boozilla@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 2y
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 2y
Can we revive Alta Vista and Ask Jeeves?
Boozilla@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 2y
Pretty sure Ask Jeeves is still around, but from what I understand it's basically useless.
SatyrSack@lemmy.one · 5 pts · 2y
Technology is cyclical
DougHolland@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
A day later, and it's still too swamped to let me in... I'll keep trying, though.
Lojcs@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 2y
Anyone wants to explain the niceness selector?
Pechente@feddit.org · 15 pts · 2y
The serial port made a really good video about it recently. This channel is pretty amazing for early internet content.
clutchtwopointzero@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y
Archive, Veronica, and Gopher... The Usenet trio
paddirn@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
It was also the name of an insane computer intelligence in a tabletop RPG game called RIFTS by Palladium Books. It originally appeared in RIFTS Sourcebook One from 1991, about a year after the initial release of Archie (the search engine). I don't know if the writer, Kevin Sembieda, took the name of the AI, A.R.C.H.I.E. Three, from this search engine or if it's just something he worked up on his own, but I've always thought that was kind of funny.
https://palladium-store.com/1001/product/801-Rifts-Sourcebook-One-Revised-and-Expanded.html
HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com · 6 pts · 2y
I was not even using gopher until 92 and did not use a graphical interface to the internet until at least 96 but maybe 97 or 98.