"Archie, first crafted by Alan Emtage while a student at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, allowed for the searching of various 'anonymous' FTP servers around what was then a very small web of universities, researchers, and government and military nodes. It was groundbreaking; it was the first echo of the "anything, anywhere" Internet to come. And when The Serial Port went looking, it very much did not exist." arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/0…
Archie, the Internet’s first search engine, is rescued and running
A journey through busted tapes, the Internet Old Farts Club, and SPARCstations.Kevin Purdy (Ars Technica)
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