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retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish · 6 months ago

Finding And Resurrecting Archie: The Internet’s First Search Engine

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Finding And Resurrecting Archie: The Internet’s First Search Engine

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retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish · 6 months ago

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Back in the innocent days of the late 1980s the Internet as we know it today did not exist yet, but there were still plenty of FTP servers. Since manually keeping track of all of the files on those…

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There is still a Veronica! I use it regularly for searching gopherspace.
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  Oh that’s amazing. I’m gonna check it out. Old school internet ftw